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• There's no one there to understand, there's just understanding, which flourishes in you as peace, joy and contentment.

  Mooji

  Joy, Understanding

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• We'll therefore relish with content, Whate'er kind providence has sent, Nor aim beyond our pow'r; For, if our stock be very small, 'Tis prudent to enjoy it all, Nor lose the present hour.

  Nathaniel Cotton

  Prudent, Kind, Hours

  Nathaniel Cotton, “The Fire-Side”

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• Happy the man, of mortals happiest he, Whose quiet mind from vain desires is free; Whom neither hopes deceive, nor fears torment, But lives at peace, within himself content; In thought, or act, accountable to none But to himself, and to the gods alone.

  George Granville, 1st Baron Lansdowne

  Men, Mind, Desire

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• Digital piracy needs to be addressed. Without content protection, investment in content can't be supported. We need secure distribution. If you (telecommunications equipment and software makers) help us, we will make it easier for you to distribute our content.

  Bob Iger

  Digital, Needs, Helping

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• No other content company has Sony's intuitive grasp of technology and no other company has Sony's intimate understanding of the demands of content.

  Howard Stringer

  Technology, Understanding, Demand

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• Can a one judge sitting somewhere in a trial court issue an order that says nobody in the world is allowed to have, to use, to improve or to develop software for playing multimedia content without the permission of the manufacturers of the content themselves? .. This is an astonishing development in the course of our understanding of what we call the copyright bargain, the relationship between authors' rights, publishers' leverages and consumers' needs.

  Eben Moglen

  Rights, Order, Issues

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• I think that you will see different types of content emerging, just the same as new media generates new content in the physical world. TV created new content, but it didn't mean that radio disappeared.

  Donna Dubinsky

  Mean, Thinking, Media

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• Any time you are in the content creation business, you have to leverage that content in as many ways as possible. DVD is one valuable secondary growth channel for HBO. Maybe the Internet is next.

  James Goss

  Hbo, Dvds, Growth

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• Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth are never alone or weary of life. Whatever the vexations or concerns of their personal lives, their thoughts can find paths that lead to inner contentment and to renewed excitement in living.

  Rachel Carson

  Nature, Earth, Vexation

  Rachel Carson (2011). “The Sense of Wonder”, p.41, Open Road Media

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• There is a popular heresy abroad today which states that if a little is good, more is better. Following this dictum creates a life which is never fulfilling. Even while you are engaged in one rich experience you are looking about for another. There is no contentment because future plans are always intruding on the present.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Motivational, Littles, Today

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• Remember there is always a limit to self-indulgence, none to restraint... Civilization , in the real sense of the term, consists not in the multiplication but in the deliberate and voluntary restriction of wants. This alone promotes real happiness and contentment , and increases the capacity for service .

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Real, Self, Civilization

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• Our incomes should be like our shoes, if too small, they will gall and pinch us, but if too large, they will cause us to stumble and to trip. Wealth, after all, is a relative thing, since he that has little and wants less is richer than he that has much but wants more. True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Shoes, Income, World

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• The present age of contentment will come to an end only when and if the adverse developments that it fosters challenge the sense of comfortable well-being

  John Kenneth Galbraith

  Challenges, Age, Development

  John Kenneth Galbraith (2017). “The Culture of Contentment”, p.122, Princeton University Press

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• There is a difference between happiness, the supreme good, and the final end or goal toward which our actions ought to tend. For happiness is not the supreme good, but presupposes it, being the contentment or satisfaction of the mind which results from possessing it.

  Rene Descartes

  Differences, Goal, Mind

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• The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

  Zig Ziglar

  Happiness, Regret, Disappointment

  Zig Ziglar (2000). “Staying Up, Up, Up in a Down, Down World: Daily Hope for the Daily Grind”, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• In individuals as in nations, contentment is silent, which tends to unbalance the historical record.

  Barbara Tuchman

  Peace, History, Historical

  Barbara W. Tuchman (2011). “A Distant Mirror: The Calamitous 14th Century”, p.210, Random House

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• Wise or unwise, who doubts for a moment that contentment is the cause of happiness? Yet the inverse is true: we are contented because we are happy, and not happy because we are contented. Well-regulated minds may be satisfied with a small portion of happiness; none can be happy with a small portion of content.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Wise, Doubt, Mind

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The works of Walter Savage Landor [ed. by J. Forster].”, p.6

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• To see an enemy humiliated gives a certain contentment, but this is jejune compared with the highly blent satisfaction of seeing him humiliated by your benevolent action or concession on his behalf. That is the sort of revenge which falls into the scale of virtue.

  George Eliot

  Revenge, Fall, Giving

  George Eliot (2016). “The Mill On The Floss”, p.294, George Eliot

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• Philosophers have widely differed as to the seat of the soul, and St. Paul has told us that out of the heart proceed murmurings; but there can be no doubt that the seat of perfect contentment is in the head, for every individual is thoroughly satisfied with his own proportion of brains.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Heart, Perfect, Soul

  Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”, p.91

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• I realized that there are some things about all of us, no matter where we're from, that we are connected and we are all still humans, and we are all still looking for the same sort of contentment in our life in one way or another. Some people are searching a little harder than others, granted. But we're not so different.

  Buck Brannaman

  People, Different, Littles

  "Buck Brannaman & Director Cindy Meehl Interview BUCK". Interview with Sheila Roberts, collider.com. June 17, 2011.

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• If we are at peace with God and our own conscience, what enemy among men need we fear?

  Hosea Ballou

  Men, Enemy, Needs

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• Total contentment is only for cows.

  Bette Midler

  Cows

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• The cable operators are paying to show content. The most important content you have is the broadcast stations. They take the position that over the air is free to people, so it should be free to them.

  Bill Vaughan

  Air, People, Important

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• We are beset by problems and if we look for their source, we find they arise because of our selfishness, because we tend to pursue our own interests at the expense of others. Our various religious traditions exist to help us reduce these problems. They all teach ways to overcome suffering through cultivating love and compassion, tolerance, patience and contentment.

  Dalai Lama

  Religious, Compassion, Tolerance

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• Consciously or unconsciously, most theists see in gods and devils, heaven and hell, reward and punishment, a whip to lash the people into obedience, meekness and contentment.... The philosophy of atheism expresses the expansion and growth of the human mind. The philosophy of theism, if we can call it a philosophy, is static and fixed.

  Emma Goldman

  Philosophy, Punishment, People

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