Robert De Niro

I always go back to how people behave. If you watch how people actually behave in a situation, it's very simple and honest and contained. You don't need to use as much expression, as much feeling. Some characters will boil over, and that's another thing, but a lot of times I think you can just do very, very little.

Actor

Eric Clapton

I sought my father in the world of the black musician, because it contained wisdom, experience, sadness and loneliness. I was not ever interested in the music of boys. From my youngest years, I was interested in the music of men.

British Musician

Ian Mcewan

When I began I thought that literature was contained within a bubble that somehow floated above the world commented upon by newspapers. But I became more and more interested in trying to include some of that world within my work.

British Author

Stephen Hawking

Most sets of values would give rise to universes that, although they might be very beautiful, would contain no one able to wonder at that beauty.

English Physicist

Gary Hamel

I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.

American Businessman

George Bernard Shaw

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

Irish Playwright

D. H. Lawrence

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

English Writer

Thomas Jefferson

Advertisements contain the only truths to be relied on in a newspaper.

American President

Solomon Ibn Gabirol

A wise man's question contains half the answer.

Spanish Poet

Sophocles

A short saying often contains much wisdom.

Greek Poet

Use 'contain' when describing the items held inside something tangible like a container.

Physical Contents

'Contain' can imply that all parts included are necessary or intended for the whole.

Implicit Inclusion

'Contain' often describes efforts to limit something potentially dangerous or undesirable.

Harmful Confinement

Using 'contain' can suggest active efforts are being made to keep something under control.

Effort Implication

'Contain' in an emotional context implies a struggle to keep feelings from being expressed openly.

Emotional Restraint

Containing emotions can refer to positive feelings too, like excitement or joy.

Not Always Negative

In math, 'contain' is a precise term meaning an element is part of a set or group.

Mathematical Belonging

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 The major currency of our reward system is dopamine, an important chemical or neurotransmitter. There are many dopamine receptors in the forebrain, but they're not evenly distributed. Certain areas contain dense clusters of receptors, and these dopamine hot spots are a part of our reward system.

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 But even that number is minuscule compared to another infinity. Some physicists think the space-time continuum is literally infinite and that it contains an infinite number of so-called pocket universes with varying properties. How's your brain doing? Quantum theory adds a whole new wrinkle.

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 may contain oceans of liquid water underneath their crusts. Jupiter's large collection of moons is only made possible by the planet's massive size and gravitational pull, the strongest of all the planets in the solar system. This incredible gravity also influence the sizes

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 Some of these are even visible, such as higher density of the grey matter that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life

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 this offer is an important element of control a good example of this for me is my morning commute I live in New York City and I take the subway to work every day for better or for worse and my commute contains lots of people the sounds of their music smells emanating

Time is memory and you...

 So what's important to remember? Comets contain the original material from which our solar system was formed, so they're ideal to study the components that were present at the time when Earth, and life, started. Comets are also suspected

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 oviduct first it swathes with albumen the egg white that contains the water needed by the growing chick that done and enclosed within the membrane it travels on into the uterus when it will be given its protective

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 The virus is contained for now, but unless you can destroy it, the vents will soon open and unleash a deadly airborne plague. Without hesitation, you grab your HazMat suit and get ready to save the world.

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 This simple story contains all of the elements that make for a truly Kafkaesque scenario. It's not the absurdity of bureaucracy alone, but the irony of the character's circular reasoning in reaction to it

Contain

To have something inside or include something as a part.

To keep something harmful within limits and not allow it to spread.

To control or hide a strong feeling or emotion.

In mathematics, if a set contains a number or other element, that number or element is a member of the set.

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