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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes. ↗

— Mark Twain

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The painter... does not fit the paints to the world. He most certainly does not fit the world to himself. He fits himself to the paint. The self is the servant who bears the paintbox and its inherited contents. ↗

— Annie Dillard

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The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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A nation without dregs and malcontents is orderly, peaceful and pleasant, but perhaps without the seed of things to come. ↗

— Eric Hoffer

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Remember above all that mental stability comes by examining the contents of the mind, not by avoidence. ↗

— Vernon Howard

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A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices. ↗

— Johan Huizinga

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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

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