They Contain Quotes
41 quotes by 40 authors
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Words are the most powerful thing in the universe... Words are containers. They contain faith, or fear, and they produce after their kind.
— Charles Capps
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Ninety percent of the book variations have no great value, because either they contain mistakes or they are based on fallacious assumptions; just forget about…
— Jose Raul Capablanca
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Yes, books are dangerous. They should be dangerous - they contain ideas.
— Pete Hautman
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It is a singular advantage of taxes on articles of consumption that they contain in their own nature a security against excess. They prescribe their…
— Alexander Hamilton
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Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive…
— Anne McCaffrey
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Quiet, moving, masterfully crafted. Such are the nine stories in Venus in the Afternoon. Tehila Lieberman writes with precision, restraint, with a compassionate heart. She…
— Miroslav Penkov
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The tears of my eyes watered your heart but failed to evoke a response from the barren grounds of what beats in you. They will…
— Faraaz Kazi
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The scriptures are one of our greatest treasures. They contain God’s instructions to His people from the beginning of time.
— L. Tom Perry
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You own your own words, unless they contain information. In which case they belong to no one.
— Stewart Brand
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People don't eat nutrients, they eat foods, and foods can behave very differently than the nutrients they contain.
— Michael Pollan
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Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of…
— N. T. Wright
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Whether it is in the United States or in mainland Europe, written constitutions have one great weakness. That is that they contain the potential to…
— Margaret Thatcher
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There are words which are worth as much as the best actions, for they contain the germ of them all.
— Sophie Swetchine
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When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us believe literally true…
— Richard Wagner
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Books have to be read it is the only way of discovering what they contain.
— E. M. Forster
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The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that…
— Arthur E Waite
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The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil…
— Henry Thomas Buckle
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I have devoted 30 years of research to how creative people live and work, to make more understandable the mysterious process by which they come…
— Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact…
— Christopher Alexander
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The sources of our knowledge of the kabalistic doctrines are the books of Yetzirah and Zohar, the former drawn up in the second century, and…
— Albert Pike
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