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It is possible to have a strong self-love without any self-satisfaction, rather with a self-discontent which is the more intense because one's own little core of egoistic sensibility is a supreme care.
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Discontent follows ambition like a shadow.
Meditations in Wall Street (1940) p. 135 -
Discontent is the source of all trouble, but also of all progress in individuals and in nations.
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For a successful revolution it is not enough that there is discontent. What is required is a profound and thorough conviction of the justice, necessity and importance of political and social rights.
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90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?
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As might be supposed, my parents were quite poor, but we somehow never seemed to lack anything we needed, and I never saw a trace of discontent or a failure in cheerfulness over their lot in life, as indeed over anything.
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Discontent is the first necessity of progress.
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Discontent is the first step in the progress of a man or a nation.
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Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent.
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Everything becomes so problematic because of basic faults: from a discontent with myself.
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If necessity is the mother of invention, discontent is the father of progress.
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The essence of man is, discontent, divine discontent; a sort of love without a beloved, the ache we feel in a member we no longer have.
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The splendid discontent of God With chaos made the world. And from the discontent of man The worlds best progress springs.
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The thirst to know and understand, a large and liberal discontent.
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There are two kinds of discontent in this world. The discontent that works, and the discontent that wrings its hands. The first gets what it wants. The second loses what it has. There's no cure for the first, but success and there's no cure at all for the second.
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Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.
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Restlessness is discontent and discontent is the first necessity of progress. Show me a thoroughly satisfied man and I will show you a failure.
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