#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 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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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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I believe it has been said that one copy of The Times contains more useful information than the whole of the historical works of Thucydides. ↗

— Richard Cobden

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You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book. ↗

— Michael Cunningham

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Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life. ↗

— Paul Tillich

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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains. ↗

— Henri Frederic Amiel

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We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

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