Contains Quotes
657 quotes by 558 authors
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our…
— Edward Bach
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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
— James A. Baldwin
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An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
— Samuel Beckett
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all…
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person.
— Todd Akin
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Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains…
— Benjamin Carson
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. For human beings are not…
— Margaret Fuller
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Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
— Baizhang Huaihai
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The Romans never allowed a trouble spot to remain simply to avoid going to war over it, because they knew that wars don't just go…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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There is no supernatural, there is only nature. Nature alone exists and contains all. All is. There is the part of nature that we perceive,…
— Victor Hugo
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
— George Bernard Shaw
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You know, in the oath that brand-new citizens take, it contains six different references to 'the law.' If it's good enough for us to ask…
— Trey Gowdy
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The word 'listen' contains the same letters as the word 'silent.'
— Alfred Brendel
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Reality is, after all, too big for our frail understanding to fully comprehend. Nevertheless, we have to build our life on the theory which contains…
— Subhas Chandra Bose
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Liberty is one of the most precious gifts which heaven has bestowed on man; with it we cannot compare the treasures which the earth contains…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was…
— Angela Carter
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Science in England is not a profession: its cultivators are scarcely recognised even as a class. Our language itself contains no single term by which…
— Charles Babbage
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