#contain

The book is not really the container for the book. The book itself is the narrative. It's the thing that people create. ↗

— Jeff Bezos

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As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ. ↗

— Clayton Christensen

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There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue. ↗

— Erich Fromm

#contains #destructive #envy #feeling #guise

A short saying often contains much wisdom. ↗

— Sophocles

#much #often #saying #short #wisdom

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

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion. ↗

— Charles Baudelaire

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I certainly wanted to write a book that was honest about New Orleans without explaining it to death, so much so that the first draft contained references absolutely incomprehensible to anyone who hasn't lived here for several years. ↗

— Poppy Z. Brite

#absolutely #anyone #book #certainly #contained

A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into. ↗

— Helen Dunmore

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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert. ↗

— Zach Wamp

#china #containing #exert #exerting #important

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. ↗

— Noah Webster

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