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Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains. ↗

— Napoleon Bonaparte

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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. ↗

— Angela Carter

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It is impossible for any number which is a power greater than the second to be written as a sum of two like powers. I have a truly marvelous demonstration of this proposition which this margin is too narrow to contain. ↗

— Pierre de Fermat

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We cannot therefore say that mental acts contain a cognitive as well as a conative element. ↗

— Samuel Alexander

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The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause. ↗

— Henri Bergson

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Writers seldom choose as friends those self-contained characters who are never in trouble, never unhappy or ill, never make mistakes and always count their change when it is handed to them. ↗

— Catherine Drinker Bowen

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History books that contain no lies are extremely dull. ↗

— Anatole France

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The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower. ↗

— Stephen Harper

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The best of artists has no conception that the marble alone does not contain within itself. ↗

— Michelangelo

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