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The phrase what I want struck me. It contains so much entitlement, so many complications, but encompasses only what a person doesn't have. — Tiffanie DeBartolo
I am a Christian…so that I do not expect ‘history’ to be anything but a ‘long defeat’ — though it contains (and in a legend… — J.R.R. Tolkien
writing is like being in love. You never get better at it or learn more about it. The day you think you do is the… — James Lee Burke
All men and women are connected by an energy which we call love, but which is, in fact, the raw material from which the universe… — Paulo Coelho
All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation. — Susan Sontag
Thinking. This book contains some. Whether you try it at home is up to you. — Terry Pratchett
I take pride in never being rude to anyone on this earth, which contains a great number of unbearable villains who set upon you to… — Heinrich Heine
the grace is being able to like rock music, symphony music, jazz … anything that contains the original energy of joy. — Charles Bukowski
As the water shapes itself to the vessel that contains it, so a wise man adapts himself to circumstances. — Confucius
Sometime during your life—in fact, very soon—you may find yourself reading a book, and you may notice that a book’s first sentence can often tell… — Daniel Handler
hate contains truth. beauty is a facade. — Charles Bukowski
The rose is a rose from the time it is a seed to the time it dies. Within it, at all times, it contains its… — Paulo Coelho
Because every one of us has our box, a dark chamber stowing the thing that lanced our heart. It contains what you do everything for,… — Marisha Pessl
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. — Henri Bergson
If we have no faith in ourselves and in the kind of future we can create together, we are fit only to follow, not to… — Charles Luckman
Fear is a question What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your… — Marilyn Ferguson
Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. — Pearl S. Buck
History is the most dangerous product evolved from the chemistry of the intellect. ...History will justify anything. It teaches precisely nothing, for it contains everything… — Paul Valery
History proves nothing because it contains everything. — Emile M. Cioran
We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are… — Eamon Duffy
If you say that this is absurd, that we cannot be in love with everyone at once, I merely point out to you that, as… — William James
The resolving of the ethical, is freedom; the negative resolution also has this, but the freedom, blank and bare, is as if tongue-tied, hard to… — Soren Kierkegaard
It is utterly and irrevocably possible to empty all hurts and, therefore, to love, to have compassion. To have compassion means to have passion for… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
A poem is good if it contains a new analogy and startles the reader out of the habit of treating words as counters. — Thomas Ernest Hulme
The real searcher after truth will not receive the old because it is old, or reject the new because it is new. He will not… — Robert Green Ingersoll

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