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• I wouldn't be satisfied with a life lived solely on the barricades. I reserve my right to be frivolous.

  Betty Friedan

  Barricades, Reserves, Frivolous

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• The result of this bestial lust is an indiscriminate and promiscuous splaying of all of my energies- wanting all, I accomplish nothing; desiring everything, I satisfy nothing and am satisfied by nothing.

  Edward Abbey

  Accomplish Nothing, Lust, Energy

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.84, Big Earth Publishing

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• It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

  Minor White

  Want, Groups, Photographer

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• Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

  Bob Dylan

  Men, Evil, Guides

  Song: Man in The Long Black Coat, Album: Oh Mercy, 1989

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• So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations and abuses that might be warranted by the terms of the Constitution. It must never be forgotten, however, that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government, as by the limitation of power.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Government, People, Promise

  Richard Henry Lee (1825). “Memoir of the Life of Richard H. Lee, and His Correspondence with the Most Distinguished Men in America and Europe”

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• If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation.

  Eugene V. Debs

  Life, Intelligent, Civilization

  "The Issue". Eugene V. Debs' speech in Girard, Kansas, May 23, 1908.

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• The longer I live here, the better satisfied I am in having pitched my earthly camp-fire, gypsylike, on the edge of a town, keeping it on one side, and the green fields, lanes, and woods on the other. Each, in turn, is to me as a magnet to the needle. At times the needle of my nature points towards the country. On that side everything is poetry. I wander over field and forest, and through me runs a glad current of feeling that is like a clear brook across the meadows of May. At others the needle veers round, and I go to town--to the massed haunts of the highest animal and cannibal.

  James Lane Allen

  Country, Running, Animal

  James Lane Allen, William K. Bottorff (1967). “A Kentucky Cardinal, Aftermath, and Other Selected Works”, p.46, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The spirit is at home, if not entirely satisfied, in America.

  Allan Bloom

  Home, America, Spirit

  Allan Bloom (2008). “Closing of the American Mind”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• Marilyn always dreamt of being an actress. She didn't, by the way, dream of being just a star. She dreamt of being an actress. And she had always lived somehow with that dream. And that is why, despite the fact that she became one of the most unusual and outstanding stars of all time, she herself was never satisfied. When she came to New York, she began to perceive the possibilities of really accomplishing her dream, of being an actress.

  Lee Strasberg

  Dream, New York, Stars

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• I never am really satisfied that I understand anything; because, understand it well as I may, my comprehension can only be an infinitesimal fraction of all I want to understand about the many connections and relations which occur to me, how the matter in question was first thought of or arrived at, etc., etc.

  Ada Lovelace

  Connections, May, Want

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• A longing for excitement can be satisfied without external means within oneself: For creating is the most intense excitement one can come to know.

  Anni Albers

  Mean, Creating, Excitement

  Anni Albers (1962). “On designing”

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• I think my father thought I might be president of the United States. I think he would've been satisfied with secretary of state. I'm a foreign policy person and to have a chance to serve my country as the nation's chief diplomat at a time of peril and consequence, that was enough.

  Condoleezza Rice

  Country, Father, Thinking

  "Rice speech sparks 2016 speculation" by Kevin Cirilli, Mackenzie Weinger, www.politico.com. August 29, 2012.

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• Too rich to be relevant to the world's poor, [Europe] attracts immigration but cannot encourage imitation. Too passive regarding international security. Too self-satisfied, it acts as if its central political goal is to become the worlds most comfortable retirement home. Too set in its ways, it fears multicultural diversity

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Retirement, Home, Self

  Zbigniew Brzezinski (2012). “Strategic Vision: America and the Crisis of Global Power”, p.39, Hachette UK

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• It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquility: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Motivation, Action, Tranquility

  Charlotte Bronte (2014). “The Complete Works Of Charlotte Bronte: Jane Eyre, Shirley, Villette, and The Professor”, p.152, Harper Collins

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• Each famous author of antiquity whom I recover places a new offence and another cause of dishonor to the charge of earlier generations, who, not satisfied with their own disgraceful barrenness, permitted the fruit of other minds, and the writings that their ancestors had produced by toil and application, to perish through insufferable neglect. Although they had nothing of their own to hand down to those who were to come after, they robbed posterity of its ancestral heritage.

  Petrarch

  Writing, Hands, Mind

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• Is a man satisfied, merely because he is perfumed himself, to mingle with a malodorous crowd?

  Edward Bellamy

  Men, Crowds

  Edward Bellamy (2016). “Looking Backward, 2000 to 1887: American literature”, p.110, VM eBooks

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• I am not satisfied in making money for myself. I endeavor to provide employment for hundreds of the women of my race.

  Madam C. J. Walker

  Race, Employment, Making Money

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• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Slavery

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• I will never fix my architectural style and never be satisfied with my works.

  Toyo Ito

  Style

  "2013 Pritzker Prize: Toyo Ito". Article by Vanessa Quirk, www.archdaily.com. March 19, 2013.

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• I am obsessed with beauty. I want everything to be perfect, and of course it isn’t. And that’s a tough place to be because you’re never satisfied.

  Robert Mapplethorpe

  Artist, Perfect, Want

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It is a sweet thing that we serve a dissatisfied God who has destinations in mind for us that we would never choose for ourselves. It really is a good thing that he will not be satisfied until he has gotten us exactly where he created us and re-created us to be. Most of us would have been satisfied to stay at home, and many of us would have quit the journey long before it was completed. But our heavenly Father won't give up until each one of his children has completed the journey.

  Paul David Tripp

  Faith, Sweet, Children

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• People who have accomplished work worthwhile have had a very high sense of the way to do things. They have not been content with mediocrity. They have not confined themselves to the beaten tracks; they have never been satisfied to do things just as others so them, but always a little better. They always pushed things that came to their hands a little higher up, this little farther on, that counts in the quality of life's work. It is constant effort to be first-class in everything one attempts that conquers the heights of excellence.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Hands, Class, People

  Orison Swett Marden (2007). “Do It to a Finish!”, p.21, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The Jew is not satisfied with de-Christianizing, he Judiazizes, he destroys the Catholic or Protestant faith, he provokes indifference but he imposes his idea of the world of morals and of life upon those whose faith he ruins. He works at his age old task, the annilation of the religion of Christ.

  Bernard Lazare

  Ideas, Catholic, Age

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• Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.

  Francis Chan

  Mean, Thought Provoking, Failing

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.171, David C Cook

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• Hurdlers are sprinters with a problem. They're not satisfied just to sprint. Anybody can sprint, some not as well as others of course, but anybody can sprint. Not everybody can run hurdles. There's an extra dimension involved. Hurdlers would make a good subject for a thesis in psychology - they are of apersuasion that just needs an extra dimension.

  Denny Moyer

  Motivational, Running, Track

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