#consider

The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

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I briefly considered doing Edgar Allan Poe and just swearing a lot. ↗

— Andy Richter

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A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

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So far, therefore, as we can draw safe conclusions from a single specimen, there has been no marked change of race in the human population of Switzerland during the periods above considered. ↗

— Charles Lyell

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I think rock 'n' roll would become exponentially, considerably more difficult to perform past about 65. ↗

— Adam Clayton

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I consider nothing low but ignorance, vice, and meanness, characteristics generally found where the animal propensities predominate over the higher sentiments. ↗

— William John Wills

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I choose many voices to consider and reckon with, rather than just one to tolerate. ↗

— T.F. Hodge

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I am not interested in picking up crumbs of compassion thrown from the table of someone who considers himself my master. I want the full menu of rights. ↗

— Desmond Tutu

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Sex and older women used to be considered an oxymoron, rarely mentioned in the same breath. ↗

— Gail Sheehy

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I have another Russian idea, too, with a place and a period, so I guess I have enough to keep me busy for quite some time, especially considering that I'm such a slow writer. ↗

— Martin C. Smith

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