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«Hell is more like boredom, or not having enough to do, and too much time to contemplate one's deficiencies»
«By getting up early in the morning one also gets more time at his disposal for work as compared to late-risers. Scholar and thinkers get up early in the morning and contemplate. »
Author: Rig Veda
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«BACK, n. That part of your friend which it is your privilege to contemplate in your adversity.»
«FOREORDINATION, n. This looks like an easy word to define, but when I consider that pious and learned theologians have spent long lives in explaining it, and written libraries to explain their explanations; when I remember the nations have been divided and bloody battles caused by the difference between foreordination and predestination, and that millions of treasure have been expended in the effort to prove and disprove its compatibility with freedom of the will and the efficacy of prayer, praise, and a religious life, --recalling these awful facts in the history of the word, I stand appalled before the mighty problem of its signification, abase my spiritual eyes, fearing to contemplate its portentous magnitude, reverently uncover and humbly refer it to His Eminence Cardinal Gibbons and His Grace Bishop Potter.»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
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«All change is a miracle to contemplate; but it is a miracle which is taking place every instant»
Author: Henry David Thoreau
(Essayist, Philosopher, Poet)
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All Change, contemplate, taking place
«I'll never understand the animal, the machine of Hollywood business. And I don't want to understand it. It's like joining a club, a clique just because everyone else is in it. You don't have any particular interest in it, and it has nothing to do with who you are as a person. You just join it because it's the thing to do. The quality of life is so different in France. There is the possibility of living a simple life. I would never contemplate raising my daughter in LA. I would never raise any child there.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
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clique, club, contemplate, daughter, everyone else, France, Hollywood, join, joining, machine, raising, The Animal, The Machine
«Forever and ever, night and day, I praise the Greatness of Your Goodness. You bestow Your Gifts, even if we do not ask for them. Says Nanak, contemplate the True Lord.»
«All beings and creatures, wealth and property belong to Him. O Nanak, it is so difficult to describe and contemplate Him.»
Author: Sri Guru Granth Sahib
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contemplate
«Do not contemplate on death; it is just an incident in life; contemplate on God, who is the master of all life.»
«Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate wit»
Author: Thomas Jefferson
(Author, President)
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Religion
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contemplate, Legislative power
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