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The contents of the massive banks behind these successive revetments makes it quite clear that the material was derived from the incorporation of earlier occupation levels.
Kathleen Kenyon
A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.
Johan Huizinga
One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God.
Meister Eckhart
The distinguishing characteristics of mind are of a subjective sort; we know them only from the contents of our own consciousness.
Wilhelm Wundt
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
Karl Jaspers
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No man understands a deep book until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.
Ezra Pound 
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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life.
Georg Simmel
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I hadn't been a recording artist all that long when albums came on the scene, and I was one of the first singers to point the way to how varied an album's contents could be.
Mel Torme
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It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents.
William Osler
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The trip I made to Angola to study the prehistoric contents of the gravel beds as a means of deciding the age of the deposits and their economic potential was the first time prehistory had ever been used for such a purpose.
Louis Leakey
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Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them in: but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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The Christian's Bible is a drug store. Its contents remain the same, but the medical practice changes.
Mark Twain
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When the great history of trouble is written, my family will stand extremely high in the table of contents.
Allan Sherman
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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.
H. P. Lovecraft
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