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To prefer food to art, capriciousness and indulgence to "simplicity" and "contemplat [ion]," and eating to other forms of incorporation, is, of course, a female or effeminated preference (Gill 597).
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The differences with classical historicism are, of course, clear in Marx's insistence that theory is inseparable from practice and that the task of the scholar does not consist so much in contemplat - ing the world as in analyzing its social contradictions and changing it.
HISTORICISM GEORG G. IGGERS 1968
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To answer a couple of the folks who are asking how he could find his way to contemplat ing suicide..if you imagine someone who has been active, independen t, an idol ego plays a part suddenly rendered, potentiall y incapacitated for life, it is perhaps not that shocking.
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The fact that I am aware of this, that I am an individual able to contemplat e, cogitate and communicate these ideas.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Victor Udoewa 2012
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The full consequenc es of a default or even the serious prospect of default by the United States are impossible to predict and awesome to contemplat e.
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WE never contemplat ed offing ourselves, how selfish of Clooney- instead in my case I wanted to know what my limits would be, how to adjust to them and how much I could still accomplish .
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But wait, if I am God, then I would not wonder, I would know, but wait, I should not even have to contemplat e the nothingness of this wonder.
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Parades and medals are mere distractio ns from the terrible calamities of life of which war is only one of many we don't like to contemplat e.
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Think married couple facing an unprecedented loss in funds due to job losses or a severe financial strain due to illness when contemplat ing this question.
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Parades and medals are mere distractio ns from the terrible calamities of life of which war is only one of many we don't like to contemplat e.
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