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• The avarice of mankind is insatiable.

  Aristotle

  Mankind, Avarice

  Aristotle (2016). “Politics”, p.58, Aristotle

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• Curiosity, n. An objectionable quality of the female mind. The desire to know whether or not a woman is cursed with curiosity is one of the most active and insatiable passions of the masculine soul.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Passion, Soul, Curiosity

  Ambrose Bierce (2011). “Ambrose Bierce: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs: The Devil's Dictionary, Tales, and Memoirs”, p.601, Library of America

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• May the same Almighty Goodness banish the accursed monster, war, from all lands, with her hated associates, rapine and insatiable ambition!

  Daniel Boone

  War, Ambition, Land

  Daniel Boone, Francis Lister Hawks (1996). “Daniel Boone: His Own Story”, p.25, Applewood Books

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• Everyone probably thinks that I'm a raving nymphomaniac, that I have an insatiable sexual appetite, when the truth is I'd rather read a book.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Book, Thinking, Truth Is

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• Habit is necessary; it is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive.

  Edith Wharton

  Happiness, Alive, Literature

  Edith Wharton (2016). “A Backward Glance”, p.4, Edith Wharton

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• There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

  Claire Danes

  People, Curiosity, Actors

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• Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us. Its appetite grows keener by indulgence and all we can gratify it with at present serves but the more to inflame its insatiable desires.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Disappointment, Ambition, Desire

  Benjamin Franklin (1839). “Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin”, p.15

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• Their insatiable lust for power is only equaled by their incurable impotence in exercising it.

  Winston Churchill

  Exercise, Power, Lust

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• The problem with most failing businesses is not that their owners don?t know enough about finance, marketing, management, and operations - they don?t, but those things are easy enough to learn - but that they spend their time and energy defending what they think they know. My experience has shown me that the people who are exceptionally good in business aren?t so because of what they know but because of their insatiable need to know more.

  Michael Gerber

  Failure, Thinking, Insatiable Need

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• Complacency is the enemy of study. We cannot really learn anything until we rid ourselves of complacency.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Complacency, Study

  Zedong Mao, Stuart Schram (2015). “Mao's Road to Power: Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49: V. 6: New Stage (August 1937-1938): Revolutionary Writings, 1912-49”, p.539, Routledge

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• Power, like vanity, is insatiable. Nothing short of omnipotence could satisfy it completely.

  Bertrand Russell

  Power, Vanity, Omnipotence

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.449, Routledge

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• The State acquires power... and because of its insatiable lust for power it is incapable of giving up any of it. The State never abdicates.

  Frank Chodorov

  Peace, Giving Up, War

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• A loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

  Ronald Knox

  Funny, Mom, Baby

  Definition of a baby (attributed)

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• An insatiable appetite for glory leads to sacrifice and death, but innate instinct leads to self-preservation and life.

  Jose Marti

  Sacrifice, Self, Glory

  "Martí : Thoughts/Pensamientos" edited by Carlos Ripoll, 1994.

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• We are driven by the usual insatiable curiosity of the scientist, and our work is a delightful game.

  Murray Gell-Mann

  Games, Curiosity, Usual

  Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 1969.

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• First rule of Economics 101: our desires are insatiable. Second rule: we can stomach only three Big Macs at a time.

  Douglas Horton

  Time, Desire, Three

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• A brief visit to Nepal started my insatiable love for Asian art.

  Richard Ernst

  Art, Asian, Nepal

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• America, which has the most glorious present still existing in the world today, hardly stops to enjoy it, in her insatiable appetite for the future.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  America, World, Today

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.124, Random House

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• I sense an insatiable demand for connectivity. Maybe all these people have discovered important uses for the Internet. Perhaps some of them feel hungry for a community that our real neighborhoods don't deliver. At least a few must wonder what the big deal is.

  Clifford Stoll

  Real, People, Community

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• Habit is necessary. It is the habit of having habits, of turning a trail into a rut, that must be incessantly fought against if one is to remain alive ... one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in the big things, and happy in small ways.

  Edith Wharton

  Past, Long, Intellectual

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.7523, Delphi Classics

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• I believe that this hairless embryo with the aching, oversize brain case and the opposable thumb, this animal barely up from the apes, will endure --will endure longer than his home planet, will spread out to the other planets, to the stars, and beyond, carrying with him his honesty, his insatiable curiosity, his unlimited courage --and his noble essential decency. This I believe with all my heart.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Stars, Honesty, Believe

  "This I Believe", 1952.

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• The American way of life, as I see it, is really the American way of death. Everything is determined by greed and the insatiable desire to be the richest and most powerful. And that desire is limitless.

  Lydia Lunch

  Powerful, Greed, Desire

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• Five common traits of good writers: (1) They have something to say. (2) They read widely and have done so since childhood. (3) They possess what Isaac Asimov calls a "capacity for clear thought," able to go from point to point in an orderly sequence, an A to Z approach. (4) They're geniuses at putting their emotions into words. (5) They possess an insatiable curiosity, constantly asking Why and How.

  James J. Kilpatrick

  Writing, Asking Why, Childhood

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• We live in a culture where everything is designed for our comfort or entertainment but nothing satisfies. At our core, we remain insatiable, constantly on the prowl for new commodities and pleasant sensations to fill the void.

  Daniel Pinchbeck

  Comfort, Culture, Void

  Daniel Pinchbeck (2002). “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism”, p.128, Three Rivers Press

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• You made us for yourself, Lord, and our heart is restless until it rests in you. In this creative restlessness beats and pulsates what is most deeply human - the search for truth, the insatiable need for the good, hunger for freedom, nostalgia for the beautiful, and the voice of conscience.

  Pope John Paul II

  Beautiful, Faith, Inspiration

  Pope John Paul II (1996). “The Encyclicals of John Paul II”, Our Sunday Visitor (IN)

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