As long as you happen to put your hand in a container full of pickles, might as well dip your whole arm in the container.
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4. Elements – Earth
Earth, The mother, the container
The container of life, future
Materialism, Sensuality
Fertility, Humor
Different names, in different philosophies
Balance of both yin and yang
The feminine and masculine together
Primal spirit, the yellow dragon
Pentacle the weapon,
Uriel the archangel
Phorlakh the angel
Kerub the ruler
Ghob the king
Taurus, Capricorn, Virgo
Children of earth
Calm, practical, pragmatic,
Responsible and cautious
Stubborn, intolerable and inflexible
Earth, Gaia, Prithvi,
The mother, the container
The prison, the solace
poem by Anand Dixit
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This Container
Tough are the edges of this container,
I contain them, I persuade them
To multiply inside and sting noone,
Just to be polite and not harm someone.
Just be so polite to my corner
In the haze of speech, the speaker is!
May I add the ingenious remark to relate
So that my progeny shall never deplete.
Tougher swerves of the pen make for more noise
Than this container of quite too much joy.
Joy is in the pen of concreteness,
The stated art so piled up from centuries of work.
poem by Naveed Akram
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Whatever you teach, be brief; what is quickly said the mind readily receives and faithfully retains, while everything superfluous runs over as from a full container. Who knows much says least.
New Year Resolution
Ah! Another fleeting year has passed,
In slackness I ruthlessly lavished,
“Time” the most precious asset of life.
Nothing I did to be esteemed,
Only the false vows I made,
Deceived myself and the fellows too,
Built the high walls of illusions,
The spiders of follies wove,
The cobweb of confounding confusions.
I just have peeped into the inner-self,
And wildly shocked to discover,
The container with numerous holes
In the bottom; and all sooty black,
The coins I dropped, passed rattling,
Through the dismal hollowness,
To the other side unnoticed,
Spoiling the hard-earned stock.
I resolve nothing but to bang the holes,
Mend the perforated parts,
In the coming years; and bother not,
Whether I take,
The container filled or unfilled along.
poem by Muhammad Shanazar
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A novel, in the end, is a container, a shape which you are trying to pour your story into.
quote by Helen Dunmore
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Water thrown out is hard to put back into the container.
The Earth Is?
Plant container of all planetary life
poem by Terence George Craddock
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Man's mind is not a container to be filled but rather a fire to be kindled.
quote by Dorthea Brande
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Architecture is basically a container of something. I hope they will enjoy not so much the teacup, but the tea.
quote by Yoshio Taniguchi
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I really wanted the MTV Award the most, It was a golden popcorn container and it looks really neat.
quote by Kirsten Dunst
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I had always thought that once you grew up you could do anything you wanted - stay up all night or eat ice-cream straight out of the container.
quote by Bill Bryson
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Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.
quote by Florida Scott-Maxwell
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It's not good to let any kid near a container that has a skull and crossbones on it, because there might be a skeleton costume inside and the kid could put it on and really scare you.
Jack Handey in Deep Thoughts
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A snowball is simple, direct and familiar to most of us. I use this simplicity as a container for feelings and ideas that function on many levels.
quote by Andy Goldsworthy
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Asylum
1.
Lost childhood in transit; a container full of ghosts
and bottles of piss, the cold and the waiting, the torn
pieces of paper with words in Italian, the mantras.
2.
He turned to me with the eyes of a wounded deer.
I cannot go back to the mud and the kerosine nights.
I have a question - What is this Bundesamt?
A motherless child, paradise lost.
poem by Leslie Philibert
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A container with proof of the civilization of our century has been buried in Osaka. It is to be dug out in 5,000 years' time. It remains to be seen whether archeologists will be that patient!
aphorism by Valeriu Butulescu from Immensity of the Point, translated by Eva A. Ziem
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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
quote by Angela Carter
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I will continue to push for doubling the strength of the U.S. Border Patrol, and to make sure that every cargo container that enters this nation is screened for radiation and potential weapons of mass destruction.
quote by Nick Lampson
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To my knowledge, the Department of Homeland Security has focused on detection devices that are large, expensive, use a large amount of energy, and cannot easily be placed in or on a shipping container.