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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Because of the need to remove all modernism, we stayed in the middle of nowhere all day long, living out of tents. It was cold. It definitely set the scene. ↗

— Skeet Ulrich

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Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys. ↗

— Christopher Columbus

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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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I'm just beginning to direct. For all intents and purposes, this is the first time for me. ↗

— Mark Harmon

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If I have not read a book before, it is, for all intents and purposes, new to me whether it was printed yesterday or three hundred years ago. ↗

— William Hazlitt

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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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