#contain

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

— Alexander Pope

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I don't think I would have been a writer if I hadn't been a mother. I wanted to construct something that contained some of these feelings that I had, some of these discoveries or revelations. ↗

— Carol Shields

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There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. ↗

— Hermann Hesse

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For it is in your power to retire into yourself whenever you choose. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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In yourself right now is all the place you've got. ↗

— Flannery O'Connor

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

— Mortimer Adler

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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

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

— Ansel Adams

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The buildings that I build very often have a dreamlike reality. I don't mean by that they have a fantasy quality at all, in fact quite the reverse. They contain in some degree the ingredients that give dreams their power... stuff that's very close to us. ↗

— Christopher Alexander

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The IRS is currently considering a rule that would make it easier for tax preparers to disclose the private information contained in tax returns - including name, address, Social Security number, employer, income, and charitable donations. ↗

— Melissa Bean

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