#contain

If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water. ↗

— Loren Eiseley

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I never accepted why there should be some invisible, wavy cutoff line separating Great Fiction from phosphorescent beauties and dollhouse miniatures, novels that contain a whole world in a snow globe. ↗

— James Wolcott

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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels. ↗

— Andy Goldsworthy

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It's just like any relationship, the more contained the environment, the more the good stuff appears and the more the bad stuff will reveal itself. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. ↗

— Bruce Greenwood

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Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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Here in the United States, we have between 250 and 300 years of a coal supply. That is more than the amount of recoverable oil contained in the entire world. ↗

— Tim Holden

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In 1997, the National Bankruptcy Review Commission recommended that chapter 12 of the Federal Bankruptcy Code, the chapter that contains bankruptcy protection for family farmers, be made permanent. ↗

— Tim Holden

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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal. ↗

— Victor Hugo

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