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It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

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Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. ↗

— Max Beckmann

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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt. ↗

— John Desmond Bernal

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The journey and excursions in Mexico which have originated the narrative and remarks contained in this volume were made in the months of March, April, May, and June of 1856, for the most part on horseback. ↗

— Edward Burnett Tylor

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Is there any purpose to translating poetry? A poem does not contain information of importance, like a signpost or a warning notice. ↗

— James Buchan

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Your real self - the "I am I" - is master of this land, the ruler of this empire. You rightfully have power and dominion over it, all its inhabitants, and all contained in its realm. ↗

— Robert Collier

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It is a commonplace by now to say that the urban school systems of America contain a higher percentage of Negro children each year. ↗

— Jonathan Kozol

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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled. ↗

— Dorthea Brande

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