Contain Quotes
569 Contain quotes by 483 unique authors
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It may well be that the pictures of Courbet, Manet, Monet and their like contain beauties which escape the notice of such old romantic heads…
— Theophile Gautier
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All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is impossible.
— Paul Dickson
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The sun enriched the old poles grandly... The mothers expressed all womanhood - the big wooden hands holding the child were so full of tenderness…
— Emily Carr
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Original thoughts can be understood only in virtue of the unoriginal elements which they contain.
— Vittorio Alfieri
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The so-called language of Barbara Kruger is vernacular language. Obviously, I pick through bits and pieces of it and figure out to some degree how…
— Barbara Kruger
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Bodies which contain a greater proportion of water than is necessary to balance the other elements, are speedily corrupted, and lose their virtues and properties.
— Marcus Vitruvius Pollio
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Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents…
— Gerhard Richter
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If man wants to obtain knowledge of the greatness and happiness of these worlds, then is nothing else possible than that he also will be…
— Rudolf Steiner
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The grandest and simplest things contain worlds within worlds. Seeing them is a matter of the right point of view, and your painter's eye is…
— Richard Schmid
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But we have not used our waters well. Our major rivers are defiled by noxious debris. Pollutants from cities and industries kill the fish in…
— Lyndon B. Johnson
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[It is appropriate that the Body and Blood of Christ be truly present in this Sacrament] because of the perfection of the New Covenant. The…
— Thomas Aquinas
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Better to toil blindly, beating every stone in turn for grains of gold, whether they contain any or not, than lie down in apathetic decay.
— John Muir
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If we look further, we see that we actually contain all of existence. Everyone who has ever been or will ever be, is in some…
— Frederick Lenz
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I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.
— Norman Grubb
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...contemporary physicists come in two varieties. Type 1 physicists are bothered by EPR and Bell's Theorem. Type 2 (the majority) are not, but one has…
— David Mermin
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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull.
— Anatole France
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There is one thing the photograph must contain, the humanity of the moment. This kind of photography is realism. But realism is not enough -…
— Robert Frank
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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together…
— Nicolaus Copernicus
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A creative writing workshop will contain students whose ambitions and abilities, whose conceptions of literature itself, are so diverse that what they have in common…
— Rachel Cusk
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Political satire is a serious thing. In democratic newspapers throughout the world there are daily cartoons that often are not even funny, as is the…
— Umberto Eco
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