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Do I contradict myself? Very well, then I contradict myself, I am large, I contain multitudes. ↗

Keeping our eyes on journey's end is what we need - the place where we see at last the world that is greater than the world, the new creation that cannot be contained in present thought or social order or piety. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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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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Vigorous writing is concise. A sentence should contain no unnecessary words, a paragraph no unnecessary sentences, for the same reason that a drawing should have no unnecessary lines and a machine no unnecessary parts. ↗

— William Strunk, Jr.

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Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers. ↗

— Hudson Stuck

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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What this loss means will be appreciated from the statement that one bushel of wheat contains sufficient energy to support the average working man for 15 days. ↗

— David F. Houston

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

— Victor Hugo

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A piece of advice always contains an implicit threat, just as a threat always contains an implicit piece of advice. ↗

— Jose Bergamin

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