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A wise man's question contains half the answer.

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

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.

The art of doing mathematics consists in finding that special case which contains all the germs of generality.

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

The Bible contains six admonishments to homosexuals and 362 admonishments to heterosexuals. That doesn't mean that God doesn't love heterosexuals. It's just that they need more supervision.

Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.

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.

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.

A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.'

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.

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.

Russia contains one fourth of the inhabitants of all Europe, and one half of the entire number of Israelites.

There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.

Every human being has within him an ideal man, just as every piece of marble contains in a rough state a statue as beautiful as the one that Praxiteles the Greek made of the god Apollo.

Everything contains its antithesis.

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.

We would, however, perform an injustice to the bourgeois women's rights movement if we would regard it as solely motivated by economics. No, this movement also contains a more profound spiritual and moral aspect.

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

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

As our bodies live upon the earth and find sustenance in the fruits which it produces, so our minds feed on the same truths as the intelligible and immutable substance of the divine Word contains.

Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady.

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.

The Lord's prayer contains the sum total of religion and morals.

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.

Fear is a question: What are you afraid of, and why? Just as the seed of health is in illness, because illness contains information, your fears are a treasure house of self-knowledge if you explore them.

All that a city will ever allow you is an angle on it, an oblique, indirect sample of what it contains, or what passes through it; a point of view.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.

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.