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Letter "C" » contemplate
«I think it would be totally inappropriate for me to even contemplate what I am thinking about.»
«I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.»
«It has always seemed to me that in dealing with foreign countries we do not give ourselves a chance of success unless we try to understand their mentality, which is not always the same as our own, and it really is astonishing to contemplate how the i»
«Mine is the first generation able to contemplate the possibility that we may live our entire lives without going to war or sending our children to war.»
«It takes an extraordinary intelligence to contemplate the obvious»
Author: Alfred North Whitehead
(Mathematician, Philosopher)
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Intelligence
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contemplate
«It would not be foolish to contemplate the possibility of a far greater progress still.»
Author: John Maynard Keynes
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contemplate
«Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.»
Author: Charles Dickens
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«I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or pr»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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contemplate, establishment, Establishment of religion, respecting
«It is not enough for us to prostrate ourselves under the tree which is Creation, and to contemplate its tremendous branches filled with stars. We have a duty to perform, to work upon the human soul, to defend the mystery against the miracle, to worship the incomprehensible while rejecting the absurd; to accept, in the inexplicable, only what is necessary; to dispel the superstitions that surround religion --to rid God of His Maggots.»
Author: Victor Hugo
(Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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«Man is an individual animal with narrow faculties, but infinite desires, which he is anxious to concentrate in some one object within the grasp of his imagination, and where, if he cannot be all that he wishes himself, he may at least contemplate his own pride, vanity, and passions, displayed in their most extravagant dimensions in a being no bigger and no better than himself.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
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anxious, concentrate, contemplate, dimensions, displayed, extravagant, faculties, narrow
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