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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness. ↗

— Isaac Mayer Wise

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A typical biography relying upon individuals' notorious memories and the anecdotes they've invented contains a high degree of fiction, yet is considered 'nonfiction.' ↗

— Joyce Carol Oates

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An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited. ↗

— E. F. Schumacher

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A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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Growth itself contains the germ of happiness. ↗

— Pearl S. Buck

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Ginsberg's Collected Poems contains a wonderful poem about making it with Neal Cassady. ↗

— Thom Gunn

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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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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

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The Moment is an album that contains the best music I have ever produced. ↗

— Kenny G

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A wise man's question contains half the answer. ↗

— Solomon Ibn Gabirol

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