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«Fight for your opinions, but do not believe that they contain the whole truth or the only truth.»
«All forms of beauty, like all possible phenomena, contain an element of the eternal and an element of the transitory / of the absolute and of the particular. Absolute and eternal beauty does not exist, or rather it is only an abstraction creamed from the general surface of different beauties. The particular element in each manifestation comes from the emotions: and just as we have our own particular emotions, so we have our own beauty.»
Author: Charles Baudelaire
(Poet)
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absolute, abstraction, beauties, contain, creamed, creams, does not exist, element, emotions, eternal, forms, general, manifestation, particular, phenomena, surface, surface of, The Absolute, The Cream, The Eternal, The General, transitory
«Books have to be read (worse luck it takes so long a time). It is the only way of discovering what they contain. A few savage tribes eat them, but reading is the only method of assimilation revealed to the West.»
Author: E. M. Forster
(Essayist, Novelist)
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assimilation, contain, discovering, ill luck, luck it, savage, the West, tribes
«Books are not absolutely dead things, but do contain a potency of life in them to be as active as that soul was whose progeny they are; nay they do preserve as in a vial the purest efficacy and extraction of that living intellect that bred them»
«Can a society in which thought and technique are scientific persist for a long period, as, for example, ancient Egypt persisted, or does it necessarily contain within itself forces which must bring either decay or explosion?»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
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ancient Egypt, contain, Egypt, explosion, Explosions, for example, persist, persisted, technique, The Explosion
«All the historical books which contain no lies are extremely tedious»
«Alas, human vices, however horrible one might imagine them to be, contain the proof (were it only in their infinite expansion) of man's longing for the infinite; but it is a longing that often takes the wrong route. It is my belief that the reason behind all culpable excesses lies in this depravation of the sense of the infinite.»
«All of the books in the world contain no more information than is broadcast as video in a single large American city in a single year. Not all bits have equal value.»
Author: Dr. Carl Sagan
(Astronomer, Scientist, Writer)
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America and Americans,
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Cities
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American values, bits, broadcast, broadcasting, broadcasts, contain, More information, the books, The Video, video, videos
«Experiment to me Is every one I meet If it contain a Kernel? The Figure of a Nut Presents upon a Tree Equally plausibly, But Meat within, is requisite To Squirrels, and to Me»
«His golf bag does not contain a full set of irons.»
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