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«Love is not weakness. It is strong. Only the sacrament of marriage can contain it.»
«No office anywhere on earth is so puritanical, impeccable, elegant, sterile or incorruptible as not to contain the yeast for at least one affair, probably more. You can say it couldn't happen here, but just let a yeast raiser into the place and first thing you know - bread!»
Author: Helen Gurley Brown
(Editor, Writer)
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«It is by no means improbable that some future textbook, for the use of generations yet unborn, will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon Prophet. And the reply, absurd as it doubtless seems to most men now living, may be an obvious commonplace to their descendants»
Author: Josiah Quincy
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History
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«Intelligence has no attachment to the opinion it has formed, but only to the truth it may contain; and, knowing that error insinuates itself under the guise of truth, through the same inlets by which truth is admitted, it is ever diffident of its att»
Author: Mary Worley Montagu
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Intelligence,
Truth
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admitted, attachment, contain, diffident, inlet, inlets, insinuate, insinuates, insinuating
«Language is surely too small a vessel to contain these emotions of mind and body that have somehow awakened a response in the spirit.»
Author: Radclyffe Hall
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Language
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awakened, body language, contain, response, somehow, vessel
«Our intonations contain our philosophy of life, what each of us is constantly telling himself about things»
Author: Marcel Proust
(Author, Novelist)
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Life,
Philosophy
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constantly, contain, intonation, intonations, Philosophy of, telling
«Standing armies can never consist of resolute robust men; they may be well-disciplined machines, but they will seldom contain men under the influence of strong passions, or with very vigorous faculties.»
«Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.»
«These two chapters (Genesis 1 and 2), instead of containing, as has been believed, one continuous account of the creation, written by Moses, contain two different and contradictory stories of a creation, made by two different persons, and written in»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| Keywords:
account, account of the creation, chapters, contain, containing, continuous, contradictories, contradictory, Genesis, Moses, stories, The Creation
«Some men there are love not a gaping pig, some that are mad if they behold a cat, and others when the bagpipe sings I the nose cannot contain their urine.»
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