#contains

The best of a book is not the thought which it contains, but the thought which it suggests; just as the charm of music dwells not in the tones but in the echoes of our hearts. ↗

— John Greenleaf Whittier

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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The fact that The Bridge contains folk lore and other material suitable to the epic form need not therefore prove its failure as a long lyric poem, with interrelated sections. ↗

— Hart Crane

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The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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There is no better way of elevating the novel than by making it into a construct which contains ideas. ↗

— Heinrich Mann

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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

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It's very clear that the Bush Administration is out of control. It contains some truly dangerous people. ↗

— John Pilger

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A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left. ↗

— Alexander Pope

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Now an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but in fact the embryo contains the unique information that defines a person. All you add is food and climate control, and some time, and the embryo becomes you or me. ↗

— Todd Akin

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Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it. ↗

— James A. Baldwin

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