There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was I before I was born. In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.
Who contains himself goes seldom wrong.
Capitalism is like this fractal thing where anything that contains an element of capitalism anywhere inside it is just something that turns into capitalism. It is an incredibly defeatist attitude. If you choose to look at reality that way, I suppose you can, but you have to do enormous violence to reality to do so consistently.
A child is mysterious and powerful; And contains within himself the secret of human nature.
The clitoris contains 8,000 nerve endings. It makes it easy to have sex. With yourself.
The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.
Blue cheese contains natural amphetamines. Why are students not informed about this?
In behaving respectfully toward all that the land contains, it is possible to imagine a stifling ignorance falling away from us.
Bitterness only consumes the vessel that contains it.
. . . man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.
I wanted to deliver the emotions a man feels when he's in love. For example, through song "GG BE," I wanted to the express the feelings of being deceived by a woman (the song also contains the woman's counterargument).
A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
Ken & Mark weave a simple, compelling tale that contains profound truths. If only we all knew The Secret.
What is the body? That shadow of a shadow of your love, that somehow contains the entire universe.
It can be held certain that information that is withheld or suppressed contains truths that are detrimental to the persons involved in the suppression.
…find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.
God is the author of the Bible, and only the truth it contains will lead people to true happiness.
The truth that we must finally confront is that Islam contains specific notions of martyrdom and jihad that fully explain the character of Muslim violence.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
We always feel younger than we are. I carry inside myself my earlier faces, as a tree contains its rings. The sum of them is me. The mirror sees only my latest face, while I know all my previous ones.