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“The Earth is alive and contains the knowledge you seek. It is your consciousness that determines what it reveals. How to access this knowledge? And where are the keys to open it and make it yours? The Earth speaks. Love her, honor and respect her and she will reveal her secrets.”

Earth Speak Secret Consciousness Knowledge Alive Keys Honor Respect Determine Access Revealing Containing Honor And Respect Respect Her

Author:Barbara Marciniak

“Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.”

Men Looks Two Purpose Wise Logic Instruments Math Admire Reasoning Ingenuity Superfluous Drawers Containing Reason And Logic Assorted

Book:Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think

“Hotel tea is when you have to mix together a plastic envelope containing too much sugar, a small plastic pot of something which is not milk but has curdled anyway, and a thin brown packet seemingly containing the ashes of a cremated mole.”

Together Too Much Tea Brown Hotel Pot Milk Sugar Plastic Ashes Envelopes Containing Moles

Author:Frank Muir

“To divide a cube into two other cubes, a fourth power, or in general any power whatever into two powers of the same denomination above the second is impossible, and I have assuredly found an admirable proof of this, but the margin is too narrow to contain it.”

“Pessimists, we're told, look at a glass containing 50% air and 50% water and see it as half empty. Optimists, in contrast, see it as half full. Engineers, of course, understand the glass is twice as big as it needs to be.”

Needs Looks Bigs Courses Water Half Air Computer Empty Glasses Contrast Engineers Optimist Pessimist Containing Half Full Half Empty

Author:Bob Lewis

“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.”

Important Play Roles Influence Ambition South China Nuclear Russia Japan Korea North Korea Containing South Korea

Author:Zach Wamp

“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.”

Source: Scientific memoirs, being experimental contributions to a knowledge of radiant energy

“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.”

Said Given Company Team Source Members Photograph Obvious Missions Bones Crash Site Fragments Packages Digging Aircraft Containing Debris Team Member Laos

Author:Bo Gritz

“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.”

World Soul Nature This World Related Visible Entity Paganism Containing Eco

Author:Plato

“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.”

Book War Stories Values Jew Details Wander Participants Containing History Books

Author:James Lee Burke

“To restore man, who had been laid low by sin, to the heights of divine glory, the Word of the eternal Father, though containing all things within His immensity, willed to become small. This He did not by putting aside His greatness but by taking to Himself our littleness.”

Men Father Sin Greatness Divine Eternal Lows Glory All Things Height Containing Immensity

Book:Aquinas’s Shorter Summa

Source: Aquinas’s Shorter Summa

“There is a part of me that will forever want to be walking under autumn leaves, carrying a briefcase containing the works of Shakespeare and Yeats and a portable chess set. I will pass an old tree under which once on a summer night I lay on the grass with a fragrant young woman and we quoted e.e. cummings back and forth.”

Want Young Night Forever Tree Walking Summer Lays Chess Grass Autumn Young Women Back And Forth Containing Summer Nights Autumn Leaves Old Trees Yeats Briefcases

Author:Roger Ebert

“SCRAP-BOOK, n. A book that is commonly edited by a fool. Many persons of some small distinction compile scrap-books containing whatever they happen to read about themselves or employ others to collect.”

Persons Book Happens Fool Distinction Scrap Containing Edited

Book:The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary

“Prayer enlarges the heart until it is capable of containing God's gift of Himself. Ask and seek and you heart will grow big enough to receive Him and to keep Him as your own. Wherever God has put you, that is your vocation. It is not what we do but how much love we put into it.”

Heart Enough Bigs Asks Grows Prayer Capable Vocation Containing Much Love

Author:Mother Teresa

“Lately, however, on abandoning the brindled and grey mosquitos and commencing similar work on a new, brown species, of which I have as yet obtained very few individuals, I succeeded in finding in two of them certain remarkable and suspicious cells containing pigment identical in appearance to that of the parasite of malaria. As these cells appear to me to be very worthy of attention ... I think it would be advisable to place on record a brief description both of the cells and of the mosquitos.”

“Individually the poor are not too tempting to thieves, for obvious reasons. Mug a banker and you might score a wallet containing a month's rent. Mug a janitor and you will be lucky to get away with bus fare to flee the crime scene.”

Reason Might Poor Crime Months Scene Lucky Obvious Score Get Away Bus Thieves Bankers Tempting Wallets Containing Mug Janitor

Author:Barbara Ehrenreich

“If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water.”

“Only idiots get bored when we've all got handheld devices containing infinite knowledge at our fingertips.”

Infinite Idiot Bored Devices Containing Fingertips Infinite Knowledge

Author:Ziad K. Abdelnour

“The results suggest a helical structure which must be very closely packed containing probably 2, 3 or 4 coaxial nucleic acid chains per helical unit and having the phosphate groups near the outside.”

Results Groups Structure Chains Units Dna Acid Containing

Author:Rosalind Franklin

“MONAD, n. The ultimate, indivisible unit of matter (see Molecule). The monad has body without bulk, and mind without manifestation - containing all the powers and possibilities needful to his evolution into a German philosopher . .”

Mind Matter Body Possibility Evolution Ultimate Philosopher Manifestation Units Molecules Containing Indivisible German Philosopher

Book:The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World

“The soul of the just man is but a paradise, in which, God tells us, He takes His delight. What do you imagine, must that dwelling be in which a King so mighty, so wise, and so pure, containing in Himself all good, can delight to rest? Nothing can be compared to the great beauty and capabilities of a soul; however keen our intellects may be, they are as unable to comprehend them as to comprehend God, for, as He told us, He created us in his own image and likeness.”

Men May Soul Wise Imagine Kings Pure Delight Intellect Paradise Capability Dwelling Containing

Book:The Interior Castle: or the Mansions

Source: The Interior Castle: or the Mansions

“It can be shown that a mathematical web of some kind can be woven about any universe containing several objects. The fact that our universe lends itself to mathematical treatment is not a fact of any great philosophical significance.”

Kind Facts Universe Kindness Objects Philosophical Mathematics Math Mathematical Treatment Significance Woven Containing Great Philosophical

Author:Bertrand Russell

“It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.”

Nice Objects Math Categories Nasty Containing

Author:John C. Baez

“The present moment is always full of infinite treasure. It contains far more than you can possibly grasp. Faith is the measure of its riches: what you find in the present moment is according to the measure of your faith. Love also is the measure: the more the heart loves, the more it rejoices in what God provides. The will of God presents itself at each moment like an immense ocean that the desire of your heart cannot empty; yet you will drink from that ocean according to your faith and love.”

“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.”

World Real God Evil Sin Difficulty Dues Containing Omnipotent

Book:Bertrand Russell's Best

Source: Bertrand Russell's Best

“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.”

Thinking Writing Mind Humans Earth One Thing Bigger Globes Monstrous Containing

Author:Gunter Grass

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

Men Feels Important Ten Modern Life Containing Telegrams

Book:The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

Source: The America of George Ade, 1866-1944: Fables, Short Stories, Essays

“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.”

“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.”

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“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.”

Want Science Wise Effects Plant Soil Comparison Ingredients Quantity Smallest Accommodate Containing Manure

Author:Justus von Liebig

“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.”

Science Sides Equal Squares Angle Geometry Containing Triangles

Book:Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid

Source: Elements of Geometry, Containing the First Six Books of Euclid

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