Contains Quotes
657 Contains quotes by 540 unique authors
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We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it…
— Nicolas Malebranche
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The Chicken Soup for the Soul' books are the result of over 20 years of teaching seminars and giving speeches. The first book contains all…
— Jack Canfield
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I've been thinking about happiness-how wrong it is ever to expect it to last or there to be a time of happiness. It's not that,…
— May Sarton
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Babies are equipped at birth with a number of instinctive reflexes and behavior patterns that cause them to spend their first several years trying to…
— Dave Barry
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Painting contains a divine force which... makes the dead seem almost alive.
— Leon Battista Alberti
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Among all the modernized aspects of the most luxurious of industries, the model, a vestige of voluptuous barbarianism, is like some plunder-laden prey. She is…
— Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
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I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides.
— Richard Cobden
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Music in Africa often contains messages. Music in Senegal, and Africa, is never music for music's sake or solely for entertainment. It's always a vehicle…
— Youssou N'Dour
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Raising taxes is the last thing we should do amid the weakest economic recovery since World War II. Unfortunately, even if we avoid the full…
— John Cornyn
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We can distinguish three groups of scientific men. In the first and very small group we have the men who discover fundamental relations. Among these…
— Wilder Dwight Bancroft
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... regard this body as a machine which, having been made by the hand of God, is incomparably better ordered than any machine that can…
— Rene Descartes
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The human body contains blood, phlegm, yellow bile and black bile. These are the things that make up its constitution and cause its pain and…
— Hippocrates
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The collective unconscious contains the whole spiritual heritage of mankind's evolution born anew in the brain structure of every individual.
— Carl Jung
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Infinity is present in each part. A loving smile contains all art. The motes of starlight spark and dart. A grain of sand holds power…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast…
— Michael Cunningham
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The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced.
— Kenny G
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One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the…
— Jasper Johns
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The structure of the human brain is enormously complex. It contains about 10 billion nerve cells (neurons), which are interlinked in a vast network through…
— Fritjof Capra
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If love doesn’t triumph, it ought to. For love is the one thing we have that feels more powerful than even death; the only respite…
— Jonathan Hull
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I read a review on the Herald, it says it takes 40 minutes to get to the first sex session apparently and the whole movie…
— John Key
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Neither camera, nor lens, nor film determine the quality of pictures; it is the visual perception of the man behind the mechanism which brings them…
— Helmut Gernsheim
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This Sacrament really contains You, O my God, You whom the Angels adore, in whose presence the Spirits and mighty Powers tremble. Oh! if we…
— Angela of Foligno
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The single most empowering thing we can do for ourselves is to transform fear. While fear contains tremendous power, it doesn't propel us forward and…
— Sue Thoele
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The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of…
— Bill McKibben
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The earth is at the same time mother, She is mother of all that is natural, mother of all that is human. She is mother…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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