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• I can make dough in a machine faster than I can make it by hand, but I want to make it by hand, because I want to remember the way it feels. It's so important for me to make it by hand - whether it's a pasta dough or a pâte brisée. You become involved in it. You become personal with it. For me it's such a wonderful way to get satisfaction and gratification when I'm cooking.

  Thomas Keller

  Hands, Cooking, Important

  "Table Talk with Thomas Keller". Interview with James Mustich, www.barnesandnoble.com. November 24, 2009.

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• Even if, personally, I'm in a place of contentment or solidity, I feel like it's hard not to look out into American culture and see vast inequity, widespread institutionalized violence and racism and transphobia and environmental destruction. It's hard to be in this world and feel a sense of innate satisfaction at all. There's plenty of things to feel unsettled about.

  Carrie Brownstein

  Racism, Environmental, Contentment

  "Carrie Brownstein Discusses Her Memoir". Interview with Jenn Pelly, pitchfork.com. October 27, 2015.

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• The thing about being a lifelong gamer is that my eye-to-hand reaction time is faster than average. I actually went on a website that tests your reaction time and verified this to my satisfaction.

  Arthur Chu

  Eye, Average, Hands

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.

  John Calvin

  Hands, Giving, Wells

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• We all become different readers in how we respond to books, why we need them, what we take from them. We become different in the questions that arise as we read, in the answers that we find, in the degree of satisfaction or unease we feel with those answers...In the hands of a different reader, the same story can be a different story.

  Amy Tan

  Book, Hands, Degrees

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• While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his Creator, upon condition that it shall be exercised to ends of beneficence, to improve the condition of himself and his fellow men.

  John Quincy Adams

  Powerful, Blessed, Men

  John Quincy Adams (1965). “John Quincy Adams and American continental empire: letters, papers and speeches”, Chicago, Quadrangle Books

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• Canada receives the news of the death of Osama Bin Laden with sober satisfaction. Sadly, others will take his place.

  Stephen Harper

  News, Canada, Sober

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• What every man seeks is satisfaction. He deceives himself so long as he imagines it to lie in self-indulgence.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Lying, Men, Self

  Woodrow Wilson (1915). “When a man comes to himself”, p.35, Рипол Классик

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• We go from anticipation to anticipation, not from satisfaction to satisfaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Anticipation

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• We've all got to get together and demand something better out of our government and out of each other. We've got a system that's making us working harder, and isn't giving us satisfaction. We've got to sit down and decide what the hell we really want to be as human beings.

  Paul R. Ehrlich

  Government, Giving, Together

  "Q&A: Paul Ehrlich". Interview with Jesse Finfrock, www.motherjones.com. 2008.

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• With an intelligent couple, it ought to be possible for the husband or wife to look for satisfaction outside the relationship - while always taking the partner into consideration, meaning acting openly but still discreetly.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Couple, Husband, Intelligent

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• Law and justice are from time to time inevitably in conflict ... . The jury ... adjusts the general rule of law to the justice to the particular case. Thus the odium of inflexible rules of law is avoided, and popular satisfaction is preserved ... That is what jury trial does. It supplies that flexibility of legal rules which is essential to justice and popular contentment.

  John Henry Wigmore

  Law, Justice, Contentment

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• The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Ego, Want, Shallow

  Eckhart Tolle (2006). “A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose”, p.41, Penguin

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• The entrepreneurial life is one of challenge, work, dedication, perseverance, exhilaration, agony, accomplishment, failure, sacrifice, control, powerlessness…but ultimately, extraordinary satisfaction.

  David S. Rose

  Perseverance, Sacrifice, Dedication

  "Dieter F. Uchtdorf's address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints". Interview with Martin Zwilling, www.forbes.com. May 9, 2011.

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• Marx did not recognize that our desire to connect with a transcendent power runs even deeper than our drive for economic satisfaction. Each of us seeks. How we honor each other's search will tell the tale of the next millennium.

  Jeffrey Klein

  Running, Honor, Desire

  "Stepping On Sacred Ground" by Jeffrey Klein, www.motherjones.com. November/December 1997.

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• What's Your Purple Goldfish? busts a myth and reveals a simple truth about customer service. Stan uncovers the recipe for creating signature added value that increases customer satisfaction and drives positive word of mouth.

  Barry Moltz

  Simple, Purple, Creating

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• MAN is a social animal, gregarious by nature, and finds his greatest sense of security and satisfaction in the company of others who share his interests and attitudes. Of all the many groups into which humans have collected themselves, of all the many tribes, clans, organizations, and societies throughout history, none has been so powerful, so far-reaching, or more universal than the church.

  Billy Graham

  Powerful, Attitude, Men

  Billy Graham (2017). “Peace with God: The Secret of Happiness”, p.229, Thomas Nelson

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• I wrote much more quickly when I was younger. Over the years I've required more time in order for the pieces to arrive in a place I am happy with. The process cannot be rushed. I have to live with a piece for quite a while to feel it ultimately is where it needs to be - though anything resembling complete satisfaction remains elusive.

  Michael Hersch

  Years, Order, Needs

  Interview with Elijah Ho, www.thecounterpoints.com. April 14, 2014.

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• Wealth that stays to give enjoyment and satisfaction to its owner comes gradually, because it is a child born of knowledge and persistent purpose.

  George S. Clason

  Children, Giving, Purpose

  George S. Clason (2013). “The Richest Man In Babylon”, p.59, Lulu.com

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• I am not only retired from all public employments, but I am retiring within myself, and shall be able to view the solitary walk and tread the paths of private life with heartfelt satisfaction.

  George Washington

  Views, Heartfelt, Employment

  George Washington (1839). “Life”, p.407

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• We have the best customer satisfaction record, based on Transportation Dept. statistics, of any airline in America, the fewest complaints filed per 100,000 passengers carried. So you're not just getting low fares, you're also getting wonderful customer service.

  Herb Kelleher

  America, Records, Statistics

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• A poor life is lived by any one who doesn't regularly take time out to stand and gaze, or sit and listen, or touch, or smell, or brood, without any further end in mind, simply for the satisfaction gotten from what is gazed at, listened to, touched, smelled, or brooded upon.

  Clement Greenberg

  Smell, Mind, Life Is

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• Addiction is an increasing desire for an act that gives less and less satisfaction

  Aldous Huxley

  Giving, Addiction, Desire

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• Investing is a negative game emotionally. If you're playing for the emotional satisfaction, you're bound to lose, because what feels good is often the wrong thing to do. When all the criteria are in balance, do the thing you least want to do.

  William Eckhardt

  Emotional, Games, Feel Good

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• No satisfaction based upon self-deception is solid.

  Bertrand Russell

  Self, Deception, Self Deception

  Bertrand Russell (2015). “The Conquest of Happiness”, p.72, Lulu Press, Inc

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