Quotes with content-sake

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  • Plautus If you are content, you have enough to live comfortably.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Ben Goldacre In an ideal world, you might imagine that scientific papers were only cited by academics on the basis of their content. This might be true. But lots of other stuff can have an influence.
    Ben Goldacre
    British physician, academic (1974 - )
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  • Francis Bacon In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
    Francis Bacon
    English philosopher and statesman (1561 - 1626)
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  • Susan Sontag In most modern instances, interpretation amounts to the philistine refusal to leave the work of art alone. Real art has the capacity to make us nervous. By reducing the work of art to its content and then interpreting that, one tames the work of art. Interpretation makes art manageable, conformable.
    Susan Sontag
    American writer, filmmaker, teacher, and political activist (1933 - 2004)
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  • A. E. Housman Into my heart an air that kills
    From yon far country blows:
    What are those blue remembered hills,
    What spires, what farms are those?

    That is the land of lost content,
    I see it shining plain,
    The happy highways where I went
    And cannot come again.
    A Shropshire Lad (1896)
    A. E. Housman
    British poet (1859 - 1936)
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  • Charles Darwin It has been a bitter mortification for me to digest the conclusion that the 'race is for the strong' and that I shall probably do little more but be content to admire the strides others made in science.
    Charles Darwin
    English scientist and biologist (1809 - 1882)
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  • John Wagstaff It is invariable found that a content man is usually a weak one.
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  • Ezra Pound It is more than likely that the brain itself is, in origin and development, only a sort of great clot of genital fluid held in suspense or reserved. This hypothesis would explain the enormous content of the brain as a maker or presenter of images.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • Assata Shakur It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.
    Assata: An Autobiography (1987)
    Assata Shakur
    American activist and former member of the Black Liberation Army (BLA) (1947 - )
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  • René Daumal It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
    René Daumal
    French writer, philosopher and poet (1908 - 1944)
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  • Bobby Darin It was as though all my hostilities, anxieties, and conflicts were in one ball that was flying away into space, farther from me all the time, leaving me content with myself.
    Bobby Darin
    American singer, songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, impressionist, and actor (1936 - 1973)
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  • Bram Cohen It's always hard to predict what's coming up next. My main guess is that content creators will increasingly start using BitTorrent to distribute their own work directly.
    Bram Cohen
    American computer programmer (1975 - )
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  • Anish Kapoor It's the role of the artist to pursue content.
    Anish Kapoor
    British Indian sculptor (1954 - )
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel Learn to limit yourself, to content yourself with some definite thing, and some definite work; dare to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not and to believe in your own individuality.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Anne Seward Let me be content with being happy, without sighing that I am not distinguished.
    Anne Seward
    English poet (1742 - 1809)
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  • Louisa May Alcott Let my name stand among those who are willing to bear ridicule and reproach for the truth's sake, and so earn some right to rejoice when the victory is won.
    Louisa May Alcott
    American Author (1832 - 1888)
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  • Peter Marshall Let us not be content to wait and see what will happen, but give us the determination to make the right things happen.
    Peter Marshall
    Scots-American preacher (1902 - 1949)
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  • Samuel Johnson Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Lady Blessington Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
    Lady Blessington
    Irish novelist, journalist, and literary hostess (1789 - 1849)
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  • Albert Camus Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.
    Albert Camus
    French writer, essayist and Nobel Prize winner in literature (1956) (1913 - 1960)
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