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• You know, even when the material wasn't so good, I've gotten to work with the greats, and I've always given it my best shot. I'm satisfied with my work. I could stop tomorrow, and if Bright Young Things was my last role, I could say I tidied it up with dignity.

  Dan Aykroyd

  Roles, Lasts, Dignity

  "I'm still haunted by Belushi". The Observer, September 28, 2003.

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• God alone is satisfied with what He is and can proclaim: "I am what I am." Unlike God, man strives with all his might to be what he is not. He incessantly proclaims: "I am what I am not.

  Eric Hoffer

  Men, Might, Strive

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

  Joseph Addison

  Hope, Distance, Lying

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.67

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• Taste begins when appetite is satisfied.

  Bernard Berenson

  Taste, Appetite

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• The downtrodden are more religious than the satisfied.

  Isaac Asimov

  Religious, Religion, Downtrodden

  Isaac Asimov (2012). “Prelude to Foundation”, p.213, Spectra

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• I have read a great deal about what animals dream, but none of it has ever really satisfied me. I believe they dream exactly the way we dream, and about everything in their lives--that they have good dreams and bad dreams in almost direct proportion, as we do, to whether their lives have been more good than bad. Unfortunately, because the majority of animals have it so much tougher than we do, I believe that the majority of dreams, except in the most fortunate petdom, are bad.

  Cleveland Amory

  Dream, Believe, Animal

  Cleveland Amory (2002). “The cat who came for Christmas ; The cat and the curmudgeon ; The best cat ever”

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• You can make it all right if you will only be satisfied to remain small," I told myself. I had to keep saying it over and over to myself. "Be little. Don't try to be big. Work under the guns. Be a little worm in the fair apple of life.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Gun, Apples, Trying

  Sherwood Anderson (1969). “Sherwood Anderson's memoirs: a critical edition”

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• I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, True And False, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• Burning in effigy. Kissing the picture of one's beloved... it aims at nothing at all; we just behave this way and then we feel satisfied.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Kissing, Burning, Way

  Ludwig Wittgenstein, James Carl Klagge, Alfred Nordmann (1993). “Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951”, p.123, Hackett Publishing

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• Because waking I often observe the absurdity of dreams, but never dream of the absurdities of my waking thoughts, I am well satisfied that being awake, I know I dream not; though when I dream, I think myself awake.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Dream, Thinking, Waking

  Thomas Hobbes (1750). “The Moral and Political Works of Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury: Never Before Collected Together : To which is Prefixed, the Author's Life, Extracted from that Said to be Written by Himself, ...”, p.102

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• There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done.

  Aung San Suu Kyi

  Order, Law, Discipline

  "In Quest of Democracy". Essay by Aung San Suu Kyi, 1991.

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• The culture industry perpetually cheats its consumers of what it perpetually promises. The promissory note which, with its plots and staging, it draws on pleasure is endlessly prolonged; the promise, which is actually all the spectacle consists of, is illusory: all it actually confirms is that the real point will never be reached, that the diner must be satisfied with the menu.

  Theodor Adorno

  Real, Promise, Plot

  Theodor W. Adorno, Max Horkheimer (1997). “Dialectic of Enlightenment”, p.139, Verso

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• We must believe in a sense of life renewed by the theater, a sense of life in which man fearlessly makes himself master of what does not yet exist, and brings it into being. And everything that has not been born can still be brought to life if we are not satisfied to remain mere recording organisms.

  Antonin Artaud

  Believe, Men, Doe

  Antonin Artaud (1958). “The Theater and Its Double”, p.13, Grove Press

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• I've never regretted I was born too soon. I'm proud to be a child of the twentieth century. I'm satisfied to join its ranks on our side and fight for a new world.

  Naz?m Hikmet

  Children, Fighting, World

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• One wonders at the docility of the students who evidently must be satisfied enough with the credentials to be uncaring about the lack of education.

  Jane Jacobs

  Students, Wonder, Enough

  "Dark Age Ahead". Book by Jane Jacobs, Chapter Four, Science Abandoned, p. 79, 2004.

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• You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.

  Robert Nozick

  Ifs, Dissatisfied

  Robert Nozick (2013). “Anarchy, State, and Utopia”, p.320, Basic Books

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• Montaigne [puts] not self-satisfied understanding but a consciousness astonished at itself at the core of human existence.

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty

  Self, Understanding, Consciousness

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty (1964). “Signs”, p.203, Northwestern University Press

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• One cannot sell anything to a satisfied man. Ergo, make him want something new, or take away something that he has and then sell him something to take its place.

  Charles A. Reich

  Men, Want Something, Something New

  Charles A. Reich (1970). “The Greening of America”

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• Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.

  Howard Carter

  Years, Missing, Valleys

  Howard Carter's Diary, November 5, 1922.

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• Modern Australian trade unionism and the unionist that I am doesn't rely on a class war view that somehow that the interests of employees and managers are in two separate spheres and they're irreconcilable. I believe that when people can go to work and be happy, satisfied, engaged, where the employer is getting employees who feel their interests are aligned with the employer, you get productivity. This is the future of Australian workplaces.

  Bill Shorten

  War, Believe, Views

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• If you're a professional, you'll make it work. You can be like, 'I'm not going to do that, I'm going to do it where I'm satisfied.' But I'm very comfortable being uncomfortable so I just go for it.

  Mike Tyson

  Uncomfortable, Ifs, Comfortable

  Source: collider.com

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• We were meant to do more than make sure that all of our needs are fulfilled and all our desires are satisfied. We were never meant to be self-focused little kings ruling miniscule little kingdoms with a population of one.

  Paul David Tripp

  Kings, Self, Desire

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• God says he will never be satisfied with the infidels.

  Mohammed Omar

  Infidel

  "Mullah Omar - in his own words". Voice of America Interview, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2001.

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• A stomach accustomed to hunger is satisfied with very little.

  Jose Saramago

  Littles, Hunger, Stomach

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• All your friends think you're satisfied, but they can't see your soul, no, no, no.

  Robbie Williams

  Thinking, Soul, Your Soul

  Song: Something Beautiful, Album: Escapology

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