#contain

The thing about performance, even if it's only an illusion, is that it is a celebration of the fact that we do contain within ourselves infinite possibilities. ↗

— Sydney Smith

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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. ↗

— Peter Conrad

#angle #city #contains #ever #indirect

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. ↗

— Arthur Young

#brought #contained #just #necessary #out

It's politely assumed that democracy is a means of containing and restraining violence. But violence comes not from genes but from ideas. ↗

— Edward Bond

#comes #containing #democracy #genes #ideas

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#body #contains #fire #food #house

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares! ↗

— Emily Brontë

#spirit #wuthering-heights #imagination

I care for myself. The more solitary, the more friendless, the more unsustained I am, the more I will respect myself. ↗

— Charlotte Brontë

#defiance #empowerment #independence #individuality #self-assurance

I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me. ↗

— Rudyard Kipling

#pride #self-containment #solitude #pride

Space, and space again, is the infinite deity which surrounds us and in which we are ourselves contained. ↗

— Max Beckmann

#contained #deity #infinite #ourselves #space

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. ↗

— Clara Zetkin

#aspect #bourgeois #contains #economics #however