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There is no better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss, contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve your performance the next time.
Malcolm X

Time, Adversity, Defeat

A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body.
Benjamin Franklin

Home, Food, Mind

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Revenge, Someone, Impossible

Everything in Nature contains all the powers of Nature. Everything is made of one hidden stuff.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Nature, Everything, Made

Jealousy contains more of self-love than of love.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw

Life, Heart, Two

There is perhaps no phenomenon which contains so much destructive feeling as moral indignation, which permits envy or to be acted out under the guise of virtue.
Erich Fromm

Envy, Feeling, Moral

The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the space around you, and all it contains.
Napoleon Bonaparte

Love, Around, Space

The drama is complete poetry. The ode and the epic contain it only in germ; it contains both of them in a state of high development, and epitomizes both.
Victor Hugo

Poetry, High, Both

A short saying often contains much wisdom.
Sophocles

Wisdom, Saying, Short

Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.
Louis E. Boone

Life, Fear, Failure

When the strong box contains no more both friends and flatterers shun the door.
Plutarch

Strong, Friends, Door

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.
James A. Baldwin

Truth, Control, Universe

An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Charles Baudelaire

Beauty, Time, Him

A work of art that contains theories is like an object on which the price tag has been left.
Alexander Pope

Work, Art, Left

Religion is the state of being grasped by an ultimate concern, a concern which qualifies all other concerns as preliminary and which itself contains the answer to the question of a meaning of our life.
Paul Tillich

Life, Religion, Question

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.
James Madison

War, Reason, Progress

The universal Mind contains all knowledge. It is the potential ultimate of all things. To it, all things are possible.
Ernest Holmes

Knowledge, Mind, Possible

Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
Samuel Beckett

Rich, University, Ireland

All vital truth contains the memory of all that for which it is not true.
David Herbert Lawrence

Truth, True, Memory

Cancer victimhood contains a permanent temptation to be self-centred and even solipsistic.
Christopher Hitchens

Temptation, Cancer, Permanent

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.
Philip Johnson

Great, Design, Space

Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary at the moment for our evolution, and gives us the best advantage for the development of ourselves.
Edward Bach

Life, Best, Moment

Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
Arthur Erickson

Spiritual, Space, Physical

An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
Henri Frederic Amiel

Truth, Dangerous, Degree

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Future, Mind, Past

It takes a big idea to attract the attention of consumers and get them to buy your product. Unless your advertising contains a big idea, it will pass like a ship in the night. I doubt if more than one campaign in a hundred contains a big idea.
David Ogilvy

Doubt, Night, Big

The world is now unipolar and contains o-nly o-ne superpower. Canada shares a continent with that superpower.
Stephen Harper

Canada, Shares, Superpower

Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'
Benjamin Carson

Time, Person, Thinking

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.
Pearl S. Buck

Happiness, Growth, Germ

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