#contains

For me an object is something living. This cigarette or this box of matches contains a secret life much more intense than that of certain human beings. ↗

— Joan Miro

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Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love. ↗

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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One wants one's work to be the world, but of course it's never the world. The work is in the world; it never contains the whole thing. ↗

— Jasper Johns

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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

— Stephen Harper

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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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Second, the resolution contains the blatantly false assertion that negotiating a timeline for bringing U.S. troops home with the Iraqi government undermines U.S. national security. Such a statement shows a misunderstanding of the enemy we face in Iraq. ↗

— Peter DeFazio

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Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear. ↗

— Craig Ferguson

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