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A man never feels more important than when he receives a telegram containing more than ten words. ↗

— George Ade

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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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Therefore, in the course of the work I have followed this plan: I describe in the first book all the positions of the orbits together with the movements which I ascribe to the Earth, in order that this book might contain, as it were, the general scheme of the universe. ↗

— Nicolaus Copernicus

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The truly privileged theories are not the ones referring to any particular scale of size or complexity, nor the ones situated at any particular level of the predictive hierarchy, but the ones that contain the deepest explanations. ↗

— David Deutsch

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A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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Be what you would seem to be - or, if you'd like it put more simply - a house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ↗

— Margaret Fuller

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A symphony must be like the world. It must contain everything. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

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Acting is contained - you act for three months, then leave it - but writing is the act of creation. Writing is dangerous. ↗

— Sophie Marceau

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When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

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