to contain

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We must never throw away a bushel of truth because it happens to contain a few grains of chaff. Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

Mathematics catalogues everything that is not self-contradictory; within that vast inventory, physics is an island of structures rich enough to contain their own beholders. Greg Egan

If you thought it was impossible for a film to contain less effective comedy than Date Movie, here's evidence to the contrary. James Berardinelli

Nevertheless, this individual aspect [just-so-ness] of number appears to contain the mysterious factor that enables it to organize psyche and matter jointly. Marie-Louise von Franz

Woman's sexuality is disruptive of the dully mechanical workaday world, in which efficiency means uniformity. The problems of woman's entrance into the career system spring from more than male chauvinism. She brings nature into the social realm, which may be too small to contain it. Camille Paglia

Any wealth that takes only a market week to acquire is sure to contain in it things for which the gods will surely come to make claims. Nigerian Proverb

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