#contain

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The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.


Victor Hugo


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Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths.


Muhammad Ali


#different #different names #just #lakes #names

The telephone book is full of facts, but it doesn't contain a single idea.


Mortimer Adler


#contain #facts #full #idea #single

The face of a lover is an unknown, precisely because it is invested with so much of oneself. It is a mystery, containing, like all mysteries, the possibility of torment.


James A. Baldwin


#containing #face #invested #like #lover

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


James A. Baldwin


#control #describing #every #function #language

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.


Ansel Adams


#explained #need #nor #photograph #true

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.


Peter DeFazio


#blatantly #bringing #contains #enemy #face

In our struggle to restrain the violence and contain the damage, we tend to forget that the human capacity for aggression is more than a monstrous defect, that it is also a crucial survival tool.


Katherine Dunn


#also #capacity #contain #crucial #damage

I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.


Kirsten Dunst


#container #golden #i #looks #most

Why do people do things that they fear? It may be that the fear contains information. Something can be interesting if you get to the other side of that fear.


Craig Ferguson


#fear #get #information #interesting #may