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• No he podido averiguar si existe un equivalente francés preciso de la expresión angloamericana común "matar el tiempo". Es una expresión muy burda y despreocupada, si se reflexiona un momento, teniendo en cuenta que, después de todo, el tiempo nos está matando.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Expresión, Capaz, Común

  Christopher Hitchens (2012). "Amor, pobreza y guerra: viajes y ensayos", p.98, Atlantic Books Ltd.

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• Simon, would you still care for me if you discovered I was not who I say I am?" What do you mean?" I mean would you still care for me, no matter what you came to know?" What a thing to ponder. I don't know what to say." The answer is no. He does not need to say it. With a sigh, Simon digs at the fire with the iron poker. Bits of the charred log fall away, revealing the angry insides. they flare orange for a moment, then quiet down again. After three tries, he gives up. I'm afraid this fire's had it." I can see a few embers remaining. "No, I think not. If..." He sighs, and it says everything.

  Libba Bray

  Giving Up, Fall, Mean

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• I was just struggling with my inner vachette and pondering the depths of my own inhumanity.

  David Sedaris

  Struggle, Depth, Inhumanity

  David Sedaris (2000). "Yo hablar bonito un día"

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• What comes to your mind when you think of the word Transylvania, if you ponder it at all? What comes to my mind are mountains of savage beauty, ancient castles, werewolves, and witches - a land of magical obscurity. How, in short, am I to believe I will still be in Europe, on entering such a realm? I shall let you know if it's Europe or fairyland, when I get there. First, Snagov - I set out tomorrow.

  Elizabeth Kostova

  Believe, Thinking, Europe

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• My young sisters, we have such hope for you. We have such great expectations for you. Don't settle for less than what the Lord wants you to be... Give me a young woman who loves home and family, who reads and ponders the scriptures daily, who has a burning testimony of the Book of Mormon... Give me a young woman who is virtuous and who has maintained her personal purity, who will not settle for less than a temple marriage, and I will give you a young woman who will perform miracles for the Lord now and throughout eternity.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Book, Home, Giving

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• I could happily lean on a gate all the livelong day, chatting to passers-by about the wind and the rain. I do a lot of gate-leaning while I am supposed to be gardening; instead of hoeing, I lean on the gate, stare at the vegetable beds and ponder.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Rain, Vegetables, Wind

  "Las mejores cosas de la vida son...", por Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. 6 de enero de 2007.

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• In Africa we having a saying, 'If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together.' ...Before I go back home, I want you to consider us, Katie. Ponder what it would be like if we went together. Not alone and fast but together and far.

  Robin Jones Gunn

  Home, Together, Would Be

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• Each day is an adventure in discovering the meaning of life. It is each little thing that you do that day - whether it be spending time with your friends, running in a cross-country meet or just simply staring at the crashing ocean- that holds the key to discovering the meaning of life. I would rather be out enjoying these things than pondering them. We may never really discover the meaning of life, but the knowledge we gain in our quest to discover it is truly more valuable.

  Jack Canfield

  Country, Running, Ocean

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• Antes de examinar esto más detenidamente e investigar sus consecuencias, quiero detenerme un momento en la contemplación de Dios, ponderar sus atributos en mí, ver, admirar y adorar la belleza de su luz ilimitada, en la medida en que mi nublada perspicacia me lo permita. Creyendo que la felicidad suprema de la otra vida consiste enteramente en la contemplación de la grandeza divina, ahora encuentro que a través de una contemplación menos perfecta del mismo tipo puedo obtener la mayor alegría disponible en esta vida.

  René Descartes

  Creer, Grandeza, Luz

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• What am I pondering, you ask? So help me God, immortality.

  John Milton

  Helping, God Help Me, Immortality

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• Just as one spoils the stomach by overfeeding and thereby impairs the whole body, so can one overload and choke the mind by giving it too much nourishment. For the more one reads the fewer are the traces left of what one has read; the mind is like a tablet that has been written over and over. Hence it is impossible to reflect; and it is only by reflection that one can assimilate what one has read. If one reads straight ahead without pondering over it later, what has been read does not take root, but is for the most part lost.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Reflection, Roots, Giving

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2010). “Essays of Schopenhauer”, p.77, The Floating Press

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• Summer is a Latvian chicken. We make foolish choices. We think we’re young again. We run with outstretched arms toward an object of love and it pecks us and pecks us until we’re standing there snot-nosed and teary in the middle of Astor Place and the sun sets fire to our Penguin shirts and all that is left to do is go to our air-conditioned homes and ponder the cruelty of our finest season.

  Gary Shteyngart

  Verano, Correr, Inicio

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• We are not as Christ-centered and cross-cherishing as we should be, because we do not ponder the truth that everything good, and everything bad that God turns for the good, was purchased by the sufferings of Christ.

  John Piper

  Suffering, Cherish, Christ

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• What is this called, what I am doing, to myself, to my life, this wallowing, this pondering, this rolling over and over in the same places of my memory, wearing them thin, wearing them out? Why don't I ever learn? Why don't I ever do anything different?

  Charles Yu

  Memories, Rolling, Different

  Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.207, Vintage

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• Hay en nosotros un germen o núcleo lírico que merece respeto; invita al hombre a reflexionar o a crear; y en este oscuro rincón de sí mismo puede refugiarse y encontrar consuelos que la sociedad de sus semejantes no le proporciona.

  Norman Douglas

  Hombres, Doe, Núcleo

  Norman Douglas (1955). "Una selección de sus obras"

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• Didn't help to ponder things that were forever gone. It only made a body restless and fill up with bees, all wanting to sting something.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Life, Forever, Gone

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• There is something almost sacred about a great library because it represents the preservation of the wisdom, the learning, and the pondering of men and women of all the ages, accumulated under one roof.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Book, Men, Age

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• Una temporada de sufrimiento es una tarea pequeña si se compara con la recompensa. En lugar de envidiar tu problema, explóralo. Reflexiona sobre él. Y sobre todo, utilízalo. Úsalo para la gloria de Dios.

  Max Lucado

  Suffering, Use, Rewards

  Max Lucado (2011). “It's Not About Me: Rescue From the Life We Thought Would Make Us Happy”, p.127, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Se me ha dado tanto que no tengo tiempo para reflexionar sobre lo que se me ha negado.

  Helen Keller

  Gratitude, Famous Inspirational, Given

  "To Love this Life: Quotations".

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• The more I ponder some of the boneheaded decisions GOP candidates have made of late, I can't bring myself to believe that they are serious about capturing more than about 8 percent of the black vote.

  J. C. Watts

  Believe, Decision, Black

  "J.C. Watts Warns of GOP Catastrophe Amongst African-Americans" by Jonathan Stein, www.motherjones.com. October 24, 2007.

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• Vivimos en un trozo de roca y metal que gira alrededor de una estrella monótona que es una de los 400.000 millones de estrellas que componen la Vía Láctea, una de los miles de millones de galaxias que componen un universo que puede ser uno de los muchos, quizá infinitos, universos que existen. Es una perspectiva de la vida humana y de nuestra cultura sobre la que merece la pena reflexionar.

  Carl Sagan

  Stars, Rocks, Circles

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• En las grandes hazañas, algo permanece. En los grandes campos, algo permanece. Las formas cambian y pasan; los cuerpos desaparecen; pero los espíritus permanecen, para consagrar el terreno a la visión de las almas... generaciones que no nos conocen y que nosotros no conocemos, deseosas de ver dónde y por quién se sufrieron y se hicieron grandes cosas por ellas, vendrán a este campo inmortal, para reflexionar y soñar; y ¡he aquí! la sombra de una poderosa presencia les envolverá en su seno, y el poder de la visión pasará a sus almas.

  Joshua Chamberlain

  Sueño, Corazón, Alma

  Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (1994). "¡Bayoneta! Forward: my Civil War reminiscences", Butternut & Blue

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• If heaven is tolerant and writers are allowed (bunch of liars though they are), I wonder if they gather for coffee to ponder the prose they should have written instead.

  Lori Lansens

  Liars, Coffee, Writing

  Lori Lansens (2006). “The Girls: A Novel”, p.104, Hachette UK

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• Did you know that there is no exact rhyme in the Russian language for the word 'pravda'? Ponder and weigh this insufficiency in your mind. Doesn't that just echo down the canyons of your soul?

  Julian Barnes

  Echoes, Soul, Mind

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• this is thy hour o soul, thy free flight into the wordless, away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done, thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes thou lovest best, night, sleep, death and the stars.

  Walt Whitman

  Arte, Estrellas, Libro

  Walt Whitman, Harold Bloom (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.204, Library of America

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