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  • An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
  • A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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  • Sophocles A short saying often contains much wisdom.
    Sophocles
    Greek poet (496 - 406)
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  • Bernard Bailyn The full bibliography of pamphlets relating to the Anglo-American struggle published in the colonies through the year 1776 contains not a dozen or so items but over four hundred;
    The Ideological Origins of the American Revolution FOREWORD, p. v
    Bernard Bailyn
    American historian, author, and academic (1922 - 2020)
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  • Margaret Fuller A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
    Margaret Fuller
    American writer (1810 - 1850)
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  • Solomon Ibn Gabriel A wise man's question contains half the answer.
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  • Marcel Proust A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
    Marcel Proust
    French writer and critic (1871 - 1922)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Ben Bernanke Economics has many substantive areas of knowledge where there is agreement, but also contains areas of controversy. That's inescapable.
    Ben Bernanke
    American economist (1953 - )
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  • George Gurdjieff Every ceremony or rite has a value if it is performed without alteration. A ceremony is a book in which a great deal is written. Anyone who understands can read it. One rite often contains more than a hundred books.
    George Gurdjieff
    Russian teacher and writer (1873 - 1949)
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Every principle contains in itself the germs of a prophecy.
    Biographia Literaria ch. 10
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Ben Carson 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 memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
    Ben Carson
    American politician, and author (1951 - )
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of hidden stuff.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Walter Benjamin Experience has taught me that the shallowest of communist platitudes contains more of a hierarchy of meaning than contemporary bourgeois profundity.
    Walter Benjamin
    German philosopher (1892 - 1940)
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  • Pearl S. Buck Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
    Pearl S. Buck
    American novelist (1892 - 1973)
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  • Frederick Salomon Perls I believe that any single dream contains the essential message about our existence.
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  • Arvo Part I could compare my music to white light which contains all colours. Only a prism can divide the colours and make them appear; this prism could be the spirit of the listener.
    Arvo Part
    Estonian composer
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  • Edith Wharton I wonder, among all the tangles of this mortal coil, which one contains tighter knots to undo, and consequently suggests more tugging, and pain, and diversified elements of misery, than the marriage tie.
    Edith Wharton
    American Author (1862 - 1937)
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  • Bernie Sanders In 49 countries around the world, including all of Europe, people have the opportunity of knowing whether or not they are eating food which contains genetically engineered ingredients. In the United States, we don't.
    Bernie Sanders
    American politician (1941 - )
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  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
    Samuel Taylor Coleridge
    English poet and critic (1772 - 1834)
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  • Socrates Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Carlisle Floyd Like any other composer of opera, I choose a subject not for polemical reasons, but because it contains vivid characters in highly charged dramatic situations.
    Carlisle Floyd
    American opera composer
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