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The power for creating a better future is contained in the present moment: You create a good future by creating a good present. Eckhart Tolle

Future Good You Better Power Better Future Contained Create Creating Moment Present Present Moment

There's no reality except the one contained within us. That's why so many people live an unreal life. They take images outside them for reality and never allow the world within them to assert itself. Hermann Hesse

The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time. John Stuart Mill

All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible. Noah Webster

War Bible Injustice Oppression Crime Men Ambition Precepts Neglecting Evils Miseries Contained Vice Proceed Which Suffer Slavery

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words. Ansel Adams

Words Photograph True Contained Nor Explained Need

Beware of generalizations about any faith because they sometimes amount to the religious equivalent of racial profiling. Hinduism contained both Gandhi and the fanatic who assassinated him. Nicholas Kristof

Faith Sometimes Religious About Both Generalizations Contained Beware Him Because Hinduism Equivalent Any Fanatic Racial Gandhi Who Amount Profiling

There are so many ingredients that are contained in 'The Wall' that were not necessarily contained in other Pink Floyd records, particularly following on from 'Animals,' which was very spare and sparse. Production on it was much more massive, the complexity of the recording was much more intense. Nick Mason

Recording Animals Other Complexity Following More Records Contained Particularly Massive Were Pink Pink Floyd Very Wall Intense Which Spare Much Ingredients Production Many Necessarily Floyd

I used to get very, very frustrated by people being told what to do by nanny in Brussels. And I remember once I rang the official who was actually responsible for banning the prawn-cocktail-flavoured crisp, which I think contained a dye called Arithrazine or something like that. Boris Johnson

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I use the music to vent, and a lot of the stuff that I am writing about or was writing about contained a lot of anger and anxiety, stress and depression, so that's how the album came out so dark. Vanilla Ice

Depression Music Anger Writing Anxiety Dark Stress Out About Contained Stuff Vent How Am Came Lot Use Album

The words contained in it were inspired by the Holy Spirit into the minds of faithful men, called Prophets and Seers in the Old Testament; and Evangelists and Apostles in the New. Adam Clarke

Words Old Men Faithful Minds Spirit Prophets Inspired Contained New Testament Were Holy Holy Spirit Apostles Old Testament Evangelist

I hold that the perfection of form and beauty is contained in the sum of all men. Albrecht Durer

Men Beauty Sum Perfection Contained Form Hold

For America, 1812 became the war in which it had finally gained its independence. For Britain, 1812 became the skirmish it had contained, while winning the real war against its greatest nemesis, Napoleon. Amanda Foreman

War Independence Finally Winning Had Contained Napoleon Became Greatest Real America Real War Which Gained While Against Britain

America, a country that is no longer contained by physical borders, aspires only for more power and control. I want to maximize my usefulness and advocate for the preservation of biodiversity and the pursuit of human decency within my sphere of influence. Anohni

Power Country Control Decency Sphere Borders Physical More Only More Power Pursuit Contained Longer Within Advocate America Maximize Human Influence Want Usefulness Biodiversity Preservation

When I grew up, my house contained only two books: the Bible and the 'Edmonds' cookbook. We were a working-class household. Books were a poor second to the television, which was always on, usually with me in front of it. Anthony McCarten

Me Bible Books Television Only Contained House Household Always Were Up Front Grew Which Poor Cookbook Working-Class Second Two

Science already contained all that was necessary, if you just brought it out. Arthur Young

You Science Out Brought Contained Just Necessary

I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and contained... I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing, for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired every day. Benjamin Clementine

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With a contained environment, there is the promise of friction. And that is where the drama comes from. Bruce Greenwood

Drama Promise Environment Contained Friction Where

I can sing very comfortably from my vantage point because a lot of the music was about a loss of innocence, there's innocence contained in you but there's also innocence in the process of being lost. Bruce Springsteen

Music You Lost Innocence Vantage Vantage Point About Point Contained Sing Also Because Comfortably Loss Lot Very Being Process

I would direct TV. That's a little different. It's more of a contained world as a director. When you're doing a film you get on the rollercoaster, you put the safety bar down and then you're gone. And it's hard. It's hard, too, as a parent, I think, because the hours are so long. It's hard. Cheryl Hines

You Director World Safety Long Gone Down Think Too TV Would Direct Parent More Put Contained Hours Because Doing Get Rollercoaster Different Bar Little Then Hard Film

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

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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

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