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• My downfall made a great noise: those who appeared most satisfied criticized the manner of it.

  François-René de Chateaubriand

  Noise, Made, Downfall

  "Memoirs from Beyond the Grave" by François-René de Chateaubriand, translated by A. S. Kline, (Book XXVIII, Ch. 2), 1848 - 1850.

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• Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.

  John Stuart Mill

  Selfish, Animal, Intelligent

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.101, Hackett Publishing

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• Every man is fully satisfied that there is such a thing as truth, or he would not ask any question.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Men, Asks, Every Man

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Nathan Houser (1998). “The Essential Peirce: Selected Philosophical Writings”, p.240, Indiana University Press

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• Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Doubt, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• The world was arrogant and self-satisfied, but behind all this confidence there was an uneasy sense of impending disaster. The old creeds, both religious and political, were largely in the process of dissolution, but we did not realise the fact, and therefore did not look for new foundations.

  John Buchan

  Religious, Self, Political

  "A University's Bequest to Yout". John Buchan's speech in Toronto (October 10, 1936), as quoted in John Buchan "Canadian Occasions", 1940.

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• No law can possibly meet the convenience of every one: we must be satisfied if it be beneficial on the whole and to the majority.

  Livy

  Law, Majority, Convenience

  "History of Rome". Book by Livy. Book XXXIV, section 3,

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• There is no long interval between the sense of thirst and the trickling of the stream over the parched lip; but ever it is flowing, flowing past us, and the desire is but the opening of the lips to receive the limpid, and life-giving waters. No one ever desired the grace of God, really and truly desired it, but just in proportion as he desired it, he got it; just in proportion as he thirsted, he was satisfied.

  Alexander MacLaren

  Past, Long, Giving

  Alexander MacLaren “MacLaren's Commentary- Expositions of Holy Scripture”, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time to anything else before I say I've conquered that. I just wanna become bigger and I'm never satisfied with just what I am today, I just always want to be bigger. If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates. That's the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.

  Fabolous

  Artist, Becoming The Best, Iron

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Just let the artist sign an empty canvas or a frame, with the inscription, 'I had such and such a concept in mind' for this work. The artist then need not bother with producing the work, and therefore need not be worried about being dis-satisfied. All he or she needs to do is to sell it to a collector. The collector will have the guarantee that the artist thought about the work, even if momentarily, and therefore be satisfied.

  Semir Zeki

  Artist, Guarantees That, Mind

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• Why does not the brain adapt to repeated exposure and become indifferent, instead of satisfied?

  Semir Zeki

  Brain, Doe, Exposure

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• In the Bible, shalom means universal flourishing, wholeness, and delight--a rich state of affairs in which natural needs are satisfied and natural gifts fruitfully employed, a state of affairs that inspires joyful wonder as its Creator and Savior opens doors and welcomes the creatures in whom he delights. Shalom, in other words, is the way things ought to be.

  Cornelius Plantinga

  Mean, Doors, Inspire

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• Satisfaction is like death. The day I'll be satisfied, I'll quit

  Juhi Chawla

  Satisfaction, Quitting

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• Life can be swamped by sex very easily if sex is not normally satisfied.

  Walter Lippmann

  Sex, Ifs

  Walter Lippmann (1914). “Drift and Mastery: An Attempt to Diagnose the Current Unrest”

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• Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

  George Eliot

  Baby, Sleep, Thinking

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• May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  May, Immortality

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.236

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• I would have nobody to control me; I would be absolute: and who but I? Now, he that is absolute can do what he likes; he that can do what he likes can take his pleasure; he that can take his pleasure can be content; and he that can be content has no more to desire. So the matter 's over; and come what will come, I am satisfied.

  Miguel de Cervantes

  Desire, Would Be, Matter

  "Don Quixote de la Mancha". Book by Miguel de Cervantes, Part I, Book IV, Ch. 23, 1605.

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• We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Desire, Income, Wealth

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16”, p.62, VM eBooks

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• Does religion fill a much needed gap? It is often said that there is a God-shaped gap in the brain which needs to be filled: we have a psychological need for God -- imaginary friend, father, big brother, confessor, confidant -- and the need has to be satisfied whether God really exists or not. But could it be that God clutters up a gap that we'd be better off filling with something else? Science, perhaps? Art? Human friendship? Humanism? Love of this life in the real world, giving no credence to other lives beyond the grave?

  Richard Dawkins

  Art, Brother, Father

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• It seems the baseball player of today will not be satisfied until he plays two weeks in the big league and is able to retire at twenty-two.

  Joe Garagiola

  Baseball, Player, Two

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• Be satisfied with what you have.

  Aesop

  Contentment

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• The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

  Walter Bagehot

  Essence, Littles, Way

  1856 Essay on Macaulay.

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• When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.

  Max Stirner

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.

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• How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

  Bob Dylan

  Money, Men, Mind

  Song: A Satisfied Mind, Album: Saved, 1980

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• I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Thinking, Doors, Names

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