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• There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

  James Branch Cabell

  Memories, History, Temptation

  James Branch Cabell (2013). “The Essential James Branch Cabell Collection”, eBookIt.com

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• San Franciscans have a bond of self-satisfaction bordering on smugness.

  Herb Caen

  Self, Smugness, Franciscans

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• I think sometimes people really require the satisfaction of closure.

  Diablo Cody

  Thinking, People, Sometimes

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• I've come to find more satisfaction and enjoyment in writing screenplays over the years because that's what I do primarily now.

  Diablo Cody

  Writing, Years, Enjoyment

  "‘Young Adult’ Writer Diablo Cody: We Never Really Grow Up" by Margaret Bristol, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 09, 2011.

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• If your record doesn't sell that well, man, who cares? All the satisfaction I need... comes when I step out onstage and see the people. That's awesome. I love that.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Love, Men, People

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• I like to work. The self-esteem and satisfaction that I get from working makes me a better person, which makes me a better mom.

  Cindy Crawford

  Mom, Self Esteem, Better Person

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• On television and in the movies, crimes are always solved. Nothing is left uncertain. By the end, the viewer knows whodunit. In real life, on the other hand, many murders remain unsolved, and even some that are "solved" to the satisfaction of the police and prosecutors lack sufficient evidence to result in a conviction.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Real, Hands, Police

  "The Criminal Trial Is Not About Justice for the Victim" by Alan Dershowitz, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2011.

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• I won't back down. I get a satisfaction from being tested and defeating the test.

  Ashton Eaton

  Tests, Tested

  "Ashton Eaton throws off the uniform". Interview with Morty Ain, www.espn.com. July 11, 2012.

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• Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat; the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Cheating, Struggle, Life Is

  Letter to Frances Scott Fitzgerald, 5 Oct. 1940

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• Never eat while doing something else, because you won't get the satisfaction from your food and you'll be more likely to overeat.

  Bethenny Frankel

  Bethenny Frankel (2010). “The Skinnygirl Dish: Easy Recipes for Your Naturally Thin Life”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• I get satisfaction when I write something I like, when I'm happy with it.

  Al Franken

  Writing

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• We believe that civilization has been created under the pressure of the exigencies of life at the cost of satisfaction of the instincts.

  Sigmund Freud

  Believe, Civilization, Cost

  Sigmund Freud, James Strachey, Anna Freud, Carrie Lee Rothgeb (1963). “The Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud”

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• I get satisfaction out of seeing stuff that makes real change in the real world. We need a lot more of that and a lot less abstract stuff.

  Temple Grandin

  Real, Needs, World

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• Poverty must have many satisfactions, else there would not be so many poor people.

  Don Herold

  People, Poverty, Poor

  Don Herold (1924). “So human”

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• I like playing music because it's a good living and I get satisfaction from it. But I can't feed my family with satisfaction.

  James Hetfield

  Playing Music, My Family, Heavy Music

  Playboy Magazine, April 2001.

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• I think I mainly climb mountains because I get a great deal of enjoyment out of it. I never attempt to analyze these things too thoroughly, but I think that all mountaineers do get a great deal of satisfaction out of overcoming some challenge which they think is very difficult for them, or which perhaps may be a little dangerous.

  Edmund Hillary

  Thinking, Challenges, Mountain

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• Bosses should sanction the nap rather than expect workers to power on all day without repose. They might even find that workers' happiness - or what management types refer to as "employee satisfaction results" - might improve.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Naps, Boss, Might

  "Idle thoughts" by Tom Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. July 28, 2006.

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• No money is better spent than what is laid out for domestic satisfaction.

  Samuel Johnson

  Money, Home, House

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1825). “The Table Talk of Dr. Johnson: Comprising Opinions and Anecdotes of Life and Literature, Men, Manners, and Morals”, p.41

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• Experienced happiness refers to your feelings, to how happy you are as you live your life. In contrast, the satisfaction of the remembering self refers to your feelings when you think about your life.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Thinking, Self, Live Your Life

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• I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate of true happiness.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Views, Matter, True Happiness

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• We know that the French are very different from the Americans in their satisfaction with life. They're much less satisfied. Americans are pretty high up there, while the French are quite low - the world champions in life satisfaction are actually the Danes.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Champion, Different, World

  "Are You Happy Now?". Interview with Jennifer Robison, www.gallup.com. February 10, 2005.

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• If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

  Anatoly Karpov

  Winning, Games, Play

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• A mere ape in our world may be a scholar in its own, and the low life of any beast may be a source of deep satisfaction for the beast itself.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Our World, May, Apes

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• I am never satisfied with myself and that is what keeps me going - I have no post-satisfaction.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Satisfied, Posts

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• A mutual arrangement, I repeat, is the only satisfactory medium whereby the present system can be carried on with any degree of satisfaction, and in such an arrangement the employers have more to gain than the workers.

  James Larkin

  Degrees, Gains, Employers

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