#contents

The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. ↗

— William Osler

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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that. ↗

— Charles Baxter

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The thermometer of success is merely the jealousy of the malcontents. ↗

— Salvador Dali

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The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. ↗

— John McCain

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One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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This drama between Dean and Ehrlichman took place while I was trying to give the contents to the FBI. ↗

— Fred F. Fielding

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It would certainly be interesting to know what the CIA knew about Oswald six weeks before the assassination, but the contents of this particular message never reached the Warren Commission and remain a complete mystery. ↗

— Jim Garrison

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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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