- Exerting
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- Nov 07, 2020
Containing Quotes
What holds things together, or keeps them in check.
These containing quotes range from international diplomacy aimed at containing nuclear ambitions to the idea of a library stocked with resources built specifically for teachers. Our Government quotes explore more about policy and diplomacy.
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- Grief
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- Nov 07, 2020
The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties.
- Heaven
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- Nov 07, 2020
I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, and containing many rooms, just as in Heaven there are many mansions.
- Candid
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- Nov 07, 2020
If I were to make public these tapes, containing blunt and candid remarks on many different subjects, the confidentiality of the office of the president would always be suspect.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was born, my father owned a business called a 'reading circle'; folders containing an assortment of magazines were lent to customers for one week, then recollected and lent out again. The older the folder, the lower was the fee. This was a flourishing branch of industry.
- Dalai
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- Nov 07, 2020
On Apple's special store for the Chinese market, apps related to the Dalai Lama are censored, as is one containing information about the exiled Uighur dissident leader Rebiya Kadeer. Apple similarly censors apps for iPads sold in China.
- Government
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- Nov 07, 2020
Cell-site data - like mailing addresses, phone numbers, and IP addresses - are information that facilitate personal communications rather than part of the content of those communications themselves. The government's collection of business records containing these data, therefore, is not a search.
- Chemistry
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- Nov 07, 2020
In organic chemistry, we have learnt to derive from compounds containing only carbon and hydrogen, i.e. from the hydrocarbons, all other types of combinations, such as alcohols, aldehydes, ketones, acids, etc.
- Each One
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- Nov 07, 2020
From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was capable of propagating his species without the co-operation of another, as is the case with some plants today.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I believe the life of every person is worthy of scrutiny, containing its own secrets and dramas.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets, the advantage of containing no organic material at all, so as to be independent of both these conditions, would be increasingly felt.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
I love the idea of a record containing an entire universe; where the sounds span decades of recording from all over the world and all sorts of different sources.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
My personal style really started in my teens when I gained purchasing power to actually buy my own damn clothes. For so long, my parents dictated what I wore, which largely was their way of containing me within the gender binary.
- Paper
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rag paper, containing hemp fiber, is the highest quality and longest lasting paper ever made. It can be torn when wet, but returns to its full strength when dry.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.
- Chilled
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- Nov 07, 2020