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• The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.

  Zach Wamp

  Ambition, Russia, Japan

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• In early life I had felt a strong desire to devote myself to the experimental study of nature; and, happening to see a glass containing some camphor, portions of which had been caused to condense in very beautiful crystals on the illuminated side, I was induced to read everything I could obtain respecting the chemical and mechanical influences of light, adhesion, and capillary attraction.

  John William Draper

  Beautiful, Nature, Strong

  John William Draper (1973). “Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy”, Ayer Co Pub

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• During the mission, Walter Jones, a team member was given a package containing bone fragments by a Lao. The source said they were from a crash site. He presented photographs showing himself in company with others digging around obvious aircraft debris.

  Bo Gritz

  Team, Digging, Laos

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• This world is indeed a living being endowed with a soul and intelligence ... a single visible living entity containing all other living entities, which by their nature are all related.

  Plato

  Nature, Soul, World

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• But the participants [in war] never forgot the details of their experience, and like the Wandering Jew, they were condemned to remain their own history books, each containing a story they could not pass on to others and from which no one would learn anything of value.

  James Lee Burke

  War, Book, Details

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• Military intervention to maintain the global status quo will become a constant feature of international relations, whether this is justified in terms of fighting drugs, fighting terrorism, containing 'rogue states', opposing 'Islamic fundamentalism', or containing China.

  Walden Bello

  Military, Islamic, Fighting

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• The difficulty is old, but none the less real. An omnipotent being who created a world containing evil not due to sin must Himself be at least partially evil.

  Bertrand Russell

  God, Real, Evil

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.33, Routledge

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• Global consciousness is that thing responsible for deciding that pots containing decaffeinated coffee should be orange.

  Danny Hillis

  Coffee, Orange, Consciousness

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• A music director cannot and should not be chosen on the basis of a first date. It is not so difficult to make a good impression with a single appearance, usually containing some of a conductor's party pieces, works they have performed successfully many times before.

  Leonard Slatkin

  Party, Pieces, Firsts

  "Star-Spangled Baton?" by Leonard Slatkin, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2013.

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• The institution of a public library, containing books on education, would be well adapted for the information of teachers, many of whom are not able to purchase expensive publications on those subjects.

  Joseph Lancaster

  Teacher, Book, Library

  Joseph Lancaster (1803). “Improvements in education, as it respects the industrious classes of the community”, p.38

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• In right-angled triangles the square on the side subtending the right angle is equal to the squares on the sides containing the right angle.

  Euclid

  Science, Squares, Triangles

  Euclid, Phillips (1826). “Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid”, p.41

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• A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself to that one among them which, in comparison to the wants of the plant, is present in the smallest quantity.

  Justus von Liebig

  Wise, Science, Want

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• Molecular biology has shown that even the simplest of all living systems on the earth today, bacterial cells, are exceedingly complex objects. Although the tiniest bacterial cells are incredibly small, weighing less than 10-12 gms, each is in effect a veritable micro-miniaturized factory containing thousands of exquisitely designed pieces of intricate molecular machinery, made up altogether of one hundred thousand million atoms, far more complicated than any machine built by man and absolutely without parallel in the nonliving world.

  Michael Denton

  Men, Cells, Atoms

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• If you want to understand your government, don't begin by reading the Constitution. (It conveys precious little of the flavor of today's statecraft.) Instead, read selected portions of the Washington telephone directory containing listings for all the organizations with titles beginning with the word National.

  George Will

  Reading, Organization, Government

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• Prior to 1968, the gullible gentiles could take a one dollar Federal Reserve note into any bank in America and redeem it for a dollar which was by law a coin containing 412 1/2 grains of 90 per cent silver. Up until 1933, one could have redeemed the same note for a coin of 25 4/5ths grains of 90 per cent gold. All we do is give the goy more non-redeemable notes, or else copper slugs. But we never give them their gold and silver. Only more paper.

  Harold Wallace Rosenthal

  Law, America, Giving

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• Everybody has barriers and obstacles. If you look at them as containing fences that don't allow you to advance, then you're going to be a failure. If you look at them as hurdles that strengthen you each time you go over one, then you're going to be a success.

  Benjamin Carson

  Softball, Looks, Obstacles

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• Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself.

  Mother Teresa

  Prayer, Heart, Capability

  Mother Teresa (2016). “No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition”, p.4, New World Library

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• Turning to the colour-classification methodology: The starting point are the four pure colours red, yellow, green and blue; their in-between shades and scales of brightness result in colour schemes containing 16, 64, 256 and 1,024 shades. More colours would be pointless because it wouldn't be possible to distinguish between them clearly.

  Gerhard Richter

  Art, Blue, Yellow

  Gerhard Richter, Dietmar Elger, Hans-Ulrich Obrist (2009). “Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007”, Distributed Art Pub Inc

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• The human head is bigger than the globe. It conceives itself as containing more. It can think and rethink itself and ourselves from any desired point outside the gravitational pull of the earth. It starts by writing one thing and later reads itself as something else. The human head is monstrous.

  Gunter Grass

  Writing, Thinking, Mind

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

  George Ade

  Men, Important, Modern Life

  George Ade (1960). “The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays”, New York, Putnam [1960]

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• Each hamlet or village or town should be a place, its own place. This is not a matter of fake historicism or artsy-craftsy architecture. It is a matter of respect for things existing, subtle patterns of place woven from vistas and street widths and the siting and color and scale of stores, houses, and trees... If the countryside is to prosper, it must be different from city or suburb... The difference is in part the simple business of containing our towns and giving them boundaries.

  Robert Christopher Riley

  Simple, Land, Cities

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• Society is not merely a select body of spiritual or intellectual persons, but a great organism composed of all kinds of members, a net containing bad and good.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Spiritual, Intellectual, Society

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• Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.

  Michael Pollan

  Ingredients, Thirds, Products

  Michael Pollan (2009). “Food Rules: An Eater's Manual”, p.19, Penguin

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• There shall be a National Anthem containing incomprehensible words and a high note that normal humans cannot hit without risk of hernia.

  Dave Barry

  Risk, Normal, Anthem

  "Dave Barry Hits Below the Beltway". Book by Dave Barry, 2001.

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• Pierre Curie voluntarily exposed his arm to the action of radium for several hours. This resulted in damage resembling a burn that developed progressively and required several months to heal. Henri Becquerel had by accident a similar burn as a result of carrying in his vest pocket a glass tube containing radium salt. He came to tell us of this evil effect of radium, exclaiming in a manner at once delighted and annoyed: "I love it, but I owe it a grudge."

  Marie Curie

  Glasses, Evil, Annoyed

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