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• But to say that Sarah Palin and the tea party movement is responsible for vandalism or threats is just a way to dismiss the American people and, and their dissatisfaction with this health care bill.

  Laura Ingraham

  Party, People, Tea

  "Laura Ingraham Throws Down With Matt Lauer on Today". www.newsbusters.org. March 29, 2010.

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• I said that one of the causes, and the one that has created more excitement and dissatisfaction than any other, is, that the Government will not hereafter, and when it is necessary, interpose to protect slaves as property in the Territories; and I asked the Senator if he would abandon his squatter-sovereignty notions and agree to protect slaves as all other property?

  Louis Wigfall

  War, Government, Territory

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• You love tenderly and warmly, but your love is like friendship. That's why you have good friends, you're sociable, sympathetic toward people. Until this dissatisfaction comes over you-you know what I'm talking about. Then you become moody, can even repulse people who are close to you, even people who love you, you know why. Those are bad times when everything goes cold, and they follow the times of great love.

  Christa Wolf

  Love You, Good Friend, Love Is

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• The exchange between different cultures can not possibly be seen as a threat, when it is friendly. But I believe that the dissatisfaction with the overall architecture often depends on the quality of leadership.

  Amartya Sen

  Believe, Friendly, Quality

  "Think a West tolerant intolerance against Muslims is wrong and dangerous". "La Stampa" Interview with Mario Baudino, Amartya Sen, January 30, 2003.

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• If nonsatiety were the natural state of human nature then aggressive want-stimulating advertising would not be necessary, nor would the barrage of novelty aimed at promoting dissatisfaction with last year's model. The system attempts to remake people to fit its own presuppositions. If people's wants are not naturally insatiable we must make them so, in order to keep the system going.

  Herman E. Daly

  Order, Years, People

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• Peace comes from within. Do not seek it without. It can be argued that peace and happiness comes from the subjective internalised perspective of realizing things could be worse and being grateful they aren't. The alternative view that peace and happiness comes from the objective external perspective of having more and better things than at present, while important for growth, can be a never-ending source of jealousy, dissatisfaction and disappointment. A balance of the two, where people are grateful for what they have while striving for more seems the best blended perspective.

  Gautama Buddha

  Gratitude, Disappointment, Grateful

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• The moon, too, abases her subjects, but in the daytime she is ridiculous. Your dissatisfactions, on the other hand, arrive through the mailslot with loving regularity, white and blank, expansive as carbon monoxide. No day is safe from news of you, walking about in Africa maybe, but thinking of me.

  Sylvia Plath

  Broken Heart, Moon, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2010). “Ariel”, p.45, Faber & Faber

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• I've always had this deep and chronic sense of dissatisfaction.

  Lusia Strus

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• The real practice of love goes beyond satisfaction and dissatisfaction. Wallowing in pleasure can be just as limiting as wallowing in pain if you don't open your heart beyond the satisfaction of your personal emotional needs.

  David Deida

  Pain, Real, Heart

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• The idiot who praises, with enthusiastic tone, All centuries but this, and every country but his own.

  W. S. Gilbert

  Country, Tone, Idiot

  The Mikado act 1 (1885)

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• Even Michelangelo on his deathbed thought he'd done nothing to ennoble art. He wanted to destroy his work-the Pieta! And this from the greatest artist who ever lived. Of course I am not comparing my work to Michelangelo's. But this eternal dissatisfaction of the artist is what I was talking about.

  John Huston

  Art, Talking, Done

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• As strange as it sounds, meditation may reveal that we are happier than we thought we were. We may discover that ancient conditioning rather than present circumstances is causing our dissatisfaction , and that this moment is quite sufficient or even wonderful, and we simply hadn't noticed.

  Wes Nisker

  Meditation, Sound, May

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• Learn from nature. See how everything gets accomplished and how the miracle of life unfolds without dissatisfaction or unhappiness.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Miracle, Unhappiness, Accomplished

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.209, New World Library

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• All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.

  Alton Brown

  Thinking, Doe, Results

  "Alton Brown Answers, At Last". Slashdot Interview, interviews.slashdot.org. September 12, 2002.

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• A funny thing happened to the First Amendment on its way to the public forum. According to the Supreme Court, money is now speech and corporations are now people. But when real people without money assemble to express their dissatisfaction with the political consequences of this, they’re treated as public nuisances and evicted.

  Robert Reich

  Real, Funny Things, People

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• Many of our feelings of satisfaction or dissatisfaction have their roots in how we compare ourselves to others. When we compare ourselves to those who have more, we feel bad. When we compare ourselves to those who have less, we feel grateful. Even though the truth is we have exactly the same life either way, our feelings about our life can vary tremendously based on who we compare ourselves with. Compare yourself with those examples that are meaningful but that make you feel comfortable with who you are and what you have.

  David Niven

  Meaningful, Grateful, Roots

  David Niven, PhD (2009). “The 100 Simple Secrets of Happy People: What Scientists Have Learned and How You Can Use It”, p.9, Harper Collins

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• The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Immortality, Blazing, Evidence

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1978). “The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks of Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1854-1861”, p.17, Harvard University Press

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• The satisfaction derived from the fleeting things of life is not lasting; and our wants remain unfulfilled. There is thus a general sense of dissatisfaction accompanied by all kinds of worries.

  Meher Baba

  Worry, Fleeting, Want

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• No, it's not dissatisfaction that inspires me to tinker with my songs, it's just restlessness.

  Andrew Bird

  Song, Inspire, Restlessness

  "The Multi-Instrumentalist Returns: A Conversation With Andrew Bird". Interview with Gazelle Emami, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 10, 2011.

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• What makes me different from everybody else just boils down to dissatisfaction.

  Jay Electronica

  Different

  "Jay Electronica" by Matt Diehl, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• In the business of politics, emotions and productive dissatisfaction with the world in which we live today are gradually being covered up by the minutiae of ordinary life.

  Sigmar Gabriel

  Covered Up, Live For Today, Ordinary

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• If you'd like to meet some fully realized characters while learning some specifics of Zimbabwe's postcolonial struggles, as I did, you're likely to come away with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction. If you're willing to settle for first-rate writing and provocative meditations on memory, corruption and loss, they are all here in abundance.

  Jabari Asim

  Memories, Struggle, Character

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• Forcing your employees to follow required steps only prevents customer dissatisfaction. If your goal is truly to satisfy, to create advocates, then the step-by-step approach alone cannot get you there. Instead, you must select employees who have the talent to listen and to teach, and then you must focus them toward simple emotional outcomes like partnership and advice....Identify a person's strenths. Define outcomes that play to those strengths. Find a way to count, rate or rank those outcomes. And then let the person run.

  Marcus Buckingham

  Running, Simple, Emotional

  Marcus Buckingham, Curt Coffman (1999). “First, Break All The Rules: What The Worlds Greatest Managers Do Differently”, p.132, Simon and Schuster

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• A person who wills to have a good will, already has a good will--in its rudiments. There is solid satisfaction in knowing that the mere desire to get out of an old habit is a material advance upon the condition of submergence in that habit. The longest step toward cleanliness is made when one gains--nothing but dissatisfaction with dirt.

  William Ernest Hocking

  Old Habits, Knowing, Desire

  William Ernest Hocking, Ph.D. (1912). “The Meaning of God in Human Experience”

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• Success is not necessarily determined by material possessions or accomplishments. You can enjoy success simply by reaching the point where you are perfectly content with your life in every respect and you feel no dissatisfaction or pressing need for anything else. In this sense, you can be a success sitting by yourself in a quiet place contemplating the world.

  Brian Tracy

  Accomplishment, Needs, Sitting

  Brian Tracy (2002). “The 100 Absolutely Unbreakable Laws of Business Success”, p.29, Berrett-Koehler Publishers

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