“ Truth has never been, can never be, contained in any one creed or system. ”
- Mary Augusta- Copy
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“ Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books, but lives in our very blood? ”
- Carl Jung- Copy
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“ Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes, and always count their change when it is handed to them. ”
- Catherine Drinker Bowen- Copy
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“ But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages. ”
- Edmond About- Copy
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“ UNIVAC: a device, which contained 20,000 vacuum tubes, occupied 1,500 square feet and weighed 40 tons; there was also a laptop version weighing 27 tons. ”
- Dave Barry- Copy
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“ I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark. ”
- Vanilla Ice- Copy
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“ Ideals serve well as our guides. They are like beacons on a journey; they do not permit us to tarry, as though our goal and rest were already contained in them. ”
- Karl Jaspers- Copy
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“ Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find. ”
- Veronica Lake- Copy
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“ You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase: make use of suffering. ”
- Henri Frederic Amiel- Copy
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“ The sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
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“ Horror on earth is real and it is every day. It is like a flower or like the sun; it cannot be contained. ”
- Alice Sebold- Copy
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“ Until divinity decides to reveal the future to human kind, the sum of all human wisdom is contained in these two words: Wait and Hope. ”
- Alexandre Dumas- Copy
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“ At my lemonade stand I used to give the first glass away free and charge five dollars for the second glass. The refill contained the antidote. ”
- Emo Phillips- Copy
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“ It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown. ”
- Diana Cooper- Copy
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“ The secret of joy is contained in one word — excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it. ”
- Pearl S. Buck- Copy
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“ He was a tall man with an astonishing and somehow elegant curvature of the spine, formed by an enlarged lower abdomen, which he carried in a stately and contented way, as if it contained money and securities. ”
- John Cheever- Copy
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“ Your real self — the "I am I" — is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. ”
- Robert Collier- Copy
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“ Each novel should be self-contained. That's what I aim for. Each should deal with a different theme and plot situations. The challenge is to encapsulate events and characters out of the past in such a way that the reader is familiar with the larger story, without being repetitive… ”
- James Lee Burke- Copy
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“ The stabbing horror of life is not contained in calamities and disasters, because these things wake one up and one gets very familiar and intimate with them and finally they become tame again. No, it is more like being in a hotel room in Hoboken let us say, and just enough money in one's pocket for another meal. ”
- Henry Miller- Copy
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“ If you're not ready and you're just sort of stabbin' in the dark… that's why the vignettes are so good. You can fool around in a contained 20-minute scenario and work out your ideas, work out your form. ”
- John Leslie- Copy
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“ Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained. ”
- John Stuart Mill- Copy
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“ The system becomes more coherent as it is further extended. The elements which we require for explaining a new class of facts are already contained in our system. In false theories, the contrary is the case. ”
- William Whewell- Copy
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“ If then a practical end must be assigned to a University course, I say it is that of training good members of society. Its art is the art of social life, and its end is fitness for the world. It neither confines its views to particular professions on the one hand, nor creates heroes or inspires genius on the other… ”
- John Henry Cardinal Newman- Copy
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“ It is amazing that our souls — our eternal essences, with all their hopes and dreams and visions of an eternal world — are contained within these temporal bodies. No wonder suffering is part of the human condition. ”
- Marion Woodman- Copy
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“ People who control their own lives are like those cities of the future you have seen with huge bubbles covering them. Like those futuristic cities, these people are self-contained. It doesn't matter what goes on around them, they are in control. There may be chaos in the surrounding universe… ”
- Stedman Graham- Copy
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“ It's important that someone celebrate our existence… People are the only mirror we have to see ourselves in. The domain of all meaning. All virtue, all evil, are contained only in people. There is none in the universe at large. Solitary confinement is a punishment in every human culture. ”
- Lois McMaster Bujold- Copy
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“ She used to drag her mattress besider her low window and lie awake for a long while, vibrating with excitement, as a machine vibrates from speed. Life rushed in upon her through that window - or so it seemed. In reality, of course, life rushes from within, not from without… ”
- Willa Cather- Copy
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“ The desire for freedom resides in every human heart. And that desire cannot be contained forever by prison walls, or martial laws, or secret police. Over time, and across the Earth, freedom will find a way. ”
- George W. Bush- Copy
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