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• Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

  Ihara Saikaku

  People, Simplicity, Gone

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book I, ch. 4), 1688.

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• I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Dissatisfaction

  "Wigglesworth: The Complete Story". Book by Julian Wilson, 2002.

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• The historical order is very interesting, but accidental and capricious; if we would to understand the growth of knowledge, we cannot be satisfied with accidents, we must explain how knowledge was gradually built up.

  George Sarton

  Order, Interesting, Historical

  George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”

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• The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Want, Mankind, Gross

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.69

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• The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

  David Galenson

  Thinking, People, Add

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• The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Goal, Purpose

  David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• The artist should not be satisfied to only play the part of a mirror.

  Jules Breton

  Artist, Mirrors, Play

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• The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

  Henry Abbey

  Art, Pride, Makers

  Henry Abbey (1879). “Poems”

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• Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

  Kevin Leman

  Sex, Three, May

  Kevin Leman (2010). “Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• The old man has been long at the fair. He is acquainted with the jugglers at the booths. His curiosity has been satisfied. He no longer cares for the exceptional, the monstrous, the marvelous and deformed. He looks through and beyond the gilding, the glitter and gloss, not only of things, but of conduct, of manners, theories, religions and philosophies. He sees clearer. The light no longer shines in his eyes.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Philosophy, Eye, Men

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1909). “Miscellany”

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• Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Morning, Night, Feet

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• Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Motivational, Work, Views

  Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.

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• Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells.

  Trevor O'Hoy

  Beer, Cubs, Volume

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• Many strange-looking people obviously dress according to deep convictions that are not shared by on-lookers - they clearly do not know how they actually look, but are satisfied with what their clothes make them feel and believe about their looks. These people may be the true originals, even though they are certainly not the best appreciated. The famous messages of dress, the well-known language of clothes, is very often not doing any communicating at all; a good deal of it is a form of private muttering.

  Anne Hollander

  Believe, Clothes, People

  Anne Hollander (2016). “Sex and Suits: The Evolution of Modern Dress”, p.141, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The need for mythic statements is satisfied when we frame a view of the world which adequately explains the meaning of human existence in the cosmos, a view which springs from our psychic wholeness, from the co-operation between conscious and unconscious. Meaninglessness inhibits fullness of life and is therefore equivalent to illness. Meaning makes a great many things endurable - perhaps everything.

  Carl Jung

  Spring, Fullness Of Life, Views

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• I was always an observer, even as a child. I could be satisfied to sit in a car for 3 hours and just look at the street go by while my mother went shopping.

  Jonathan Winters

  Mother, Children, Shopping

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• At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.

  Engelbert Humperdinck

  Self Esteem, Firsts, Would Be

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• The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.

  J. C. Ryle

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect.

  Zane Grey

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Zane Grey (2000). “Tales of Fishing Virgin Sea”, p.154, Derrydale Press

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• I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

  James D. Watson

  Lonely, Fun, Science

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• The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

  Raymond Aron

  Intellectual, Atheism, Want

  Raymond Aron (2001). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.257, Transaction Publishers

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• The purpose prong of the Lemon test requires that a government activity have a secular purpose. That requirement is not satisfied, however, by the mere existence of some secular purpose, however dominated by religious purposes... The proper inquiry under the purpose prong of Lemon, I submit, is whether the government intends to convey a message of endorsement or disapproval of religion.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Religious, Government, Atheism

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• I got the Weary Blues And I can't be satisfied.

  Langston Hughes

  Literature, Weary, I Can

  "The Weary Blues" l. 27 (1926)

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• I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

  Kristen Bell

  Growing Up, Struggle, Responsibility

  "Kristen Bell Talks THE LIFEGUARD, Working with Liz Garcia, Finding Out She Was Pregnant During the Shoot, and the VERONICA MARS Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2013.

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• It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

  George Washington

  Doubt, Principles, United States

  In a letter to George Washington Snyder, October 24, 1798.

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