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  • Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy.
  • Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
  • What comprises good performance? The ability through singing or playing to make the ear conscious of the true content and affect of a composition.
  • Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise.
  • You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
  • You ask yourself, 'What do you want your legacy to be?' I'm content at this point to say, 'Those who follow me.' Romeo Crennel, Bill Belichick, Sean Payton, to name a few. I think I've got a pretty good group, so far.
  • People go to Disney because they know its brand attributes. We believe we have an opportunity to go with our content directly to consumers.
  • Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
  • I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.
  • Love matches are made by people who are content, for a month of honey, to condemn themselves to a life of vinegar.
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  • Winston Churchill Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Marcus Aurelius Always observe how ephemeral and worthless human things are. Pass then through this little space of time conformably to nature, and end thy journey in content, just as an olive falls off when it is ripe, blessing nature who produced it, and thanking the tree on which it grew.
    Marcus Aurelius
    Roman emperor (121 - 180)
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  • Charles Kingsley Being forced to work, and forced to do your best, will breed in you temperance and self-control, diligence and strength of will, cheerfulness and content, and a hundred virtues which the idle will never know.
    Charles Kingsley
    British writer (1819 - 1875)
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  • Benjamin Franklin Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor.
    Benjamin Franklin
    American statesman and physicist (1706 - 1790)
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  • Joseph Addison Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
    Joseph Addison
    English politician, writer and poet (1672 - 1719)
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  • Socrates He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature.
    Socrates
    Greek philosopher (469 - 399)
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  • Aesop He that is discontented in one place will seldom be content in another.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Andrew Carnegie People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents.
    Andrew Carnegie
    American industrialist (1835 - 1919)
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  • Horace You must often make erasures if you mean to write what is worthy of being read a second time; and don't labor for the admiration of the crowd, but be content with a few choice readers.
    Horace
    Roman poet
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  • Samuel Johnson A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them.
    Samuel Johnson
    English writer (1709 - 1784)
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  • Oliver Wendell Holmes A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used.
    Oliver Wendell Holmes
    American writer and poet (1809 - 1894)
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  • Henry Miller All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet - if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content.
    Henry Miller
    American writer (1891 - 1980)
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  • Barbara Kruger Although my art work was heavily informed by my design work on a formal and visual level, as regards meaning and content the two practices parted ways.
    Barbara Kruger
    American artist (1945 - )
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  • Mark Twain Any so-called material thing that you want is merely a symbol: you want it not for itself, but because it will content your spirit for the moment.
    Mark Twain
    American writer (ps. of Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835 - 1910)
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  • Baltasar Gracian Be content to act, and leave the talking to others.
    Baltasar Gracian
    Spanish Jesuit and philosopher (1601 - 1658)
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  • Marcus Valerius Martial Be content to be what you are, and prefer nothing to it, and do not fear or wish for your last day.
    Marcus Valerius Martial
    Latin poet and epigrammatist (40 - 104)
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  • Aesop Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything.
    Aesop
    Greek fabulist and story teller (620 - 564)
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  • Gilbert Keith Chesterton Being ''contented'' ought to mean in English, as it does in French, being pleased. Being content with an attic ought not to mean being unable to move from it and resigned to living in it; it ought to mean appreciating all there is in such a position.
    Gilbert Keith Chesterton
    English writer (1874 - 1936)
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  • Alain de Botton Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well; and requires no less practice.
    Alain de Botton
    Swiss-born British author (1969 - )
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  • Bart Gordon Broadcasters have a responsibility to serve the public interest and protect Americans from objectionable content, particularly during the hours when children are likely to be watching.
    Bart Gordon
    American lawyer (1949 - )
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