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In making up stories, as in reading stories, I could create a contained world in which an experience is shared in its entirety.

~Claire Messud

Topics: Contained Could Create Entirety Experience Making Making Up Reading Shared Stories Up Which World

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I found the hedge-fund guys I met all to be very, very concentrated listeners - watchful and articulate and quick to defend, if needed. They all seemed to have this contained sitting posture. The legs, if they weren't crossed at right angles, tended to be close over the knee, their hands put together.

~Damian Lewis

Topics: Angles Articulate Close Concentrated Contained Crossed Defend Found Guys Hands Knee Legs Listeners Met Needed Over Posture Put Quick Right Seemed Sitting Together Very Watchful Were

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The most meaningful and spiritual prayers I have experienced contained many expressions of thanks and few, if any, requests.

~David A. Bednar

Topics: Any Contained Experienced Expressions Few Many Meaningful Most Prayers Requests Spiritual Thanks

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Back channels themselves are as old as American diplomacy. Thomas Jefferson was an early enthusiast - he often routed around his secretary of state, once sending a secret letter to the American envoy in France, Robert Livingston, that contained a coded message.

~David E. Sanger

Topics: American Around Back Channels Contained Diplomacy Early Enthusiast France He His Jefferson Letter Message Often Old Once Robert Secret Secretary Sending State Themselves Thomas Thomas Jefferson

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The resulting prints of 'History's Shadow' make the invisible visible and express through photographic means the shape-shifting nature of time itself and the continuous presence of the past contained within us.

~David Maisel

Topics: Contained Continuous Express History Invisible Itself Make Means Nature Past Photographic Presence Prints Resulting Shadow Through Time Us Visible Within

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Ungoverned spaces in the Islamic world will be exploited by people who wish us ill. They will not be contained.

~David Petraeus

Topics: Contained Exploited Ill Islamic People Spaces Us Who Will Wish World

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The original lists were probably carved in stone and represented longer periods of time. They contained things like 'Get More Clay. Make Better Oven.'

~David Viscott

Topics: Better Carved Clay Contained Get Like Lists Longer Make More Original Oven Periods Stone Things Time Were

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As is often the case when things are complicated, extreme views have superficial appeal. On the one extreme, some see China as an inevitable enemy that must be contained; on the other hand, there are those who see China as a slowly developing democracy that can be embraced.

~Dennis C. Blair

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I am only one-eighth the writer I might have been had I contained all the fragmented languages of Trinidad.

~Derek Walcott

Topics: Am Been Contained Fragmented Had Languages Might Only Writer I Am

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It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

~Diana Cooper

Topics: Air Contained Earthly Elements Helped Human Keep Limits Lost Me Mind Small Space Unknown

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