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• I am a man of simple tastes-I am quite easily satisfied with the best of everything.

  Winston Churchill

  Simple, Men, Taste

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• Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them, and our actions will never be without good results

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Giving, Effort

  Saint Vincent De Paul, Pierre Coste (1985). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: August 1646-March 1650”

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• Desire only God, and your heart will be satisfied.

  Saint Augustine

  Heart, Desire

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• I don't think any actor can be satisfied. I am still in the learning phase and I hope I am always in the same frame of mind when I act or do anything else. That's what makes life interesting and worth living.

  Kajol

  Thinking, Interesting, Mind

  "I am tired of crying: Kajol". Interview with Roshini K Olivera, timesofindia.indiatimes.com. Aug 2, 2012.

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• Within the next generation I believe that the world's leaders will discover that infant conditioning and narco-hypnosis are more efficient, as instruments of government, than clubs and prisons, and that the lust for power can be just as completely satisfied by suggesting people into loving their servitude as by flogging them and kicking them into obedience.

  Aldous Huxley

  Believe, Government, Hypnosis

  Letter to George Orwell. "Letters of Aldous Huxley". Book edited by Grover Smith, 1969.

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• The dear, stupid body is as easily satisfied as a spaniel.

  Annie Dillard

  Stupid, Body, Dear

  Annie Dillard (2016). “The Abundance”, p.30, Canongate Books

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• Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must be satisfied before it is disgusted.

  Samuel Johnson

  May, Hunger, Compliment

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.329

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• Memory is like all other human powers, with which no man can be satisfied who measures them by what he can conceive, or by what he can desire.

  Samuel Johnson

  Memories, Men, Desire

  Samuel Johnson, Peter Martin (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.83, Harvard University Press

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• It has been my fortune to love in general those men most who have thought most differently from me, on subjects wherein others pardon no discordance. I think I have no more right to be angry with a man, whose reason has followed up a process different from what mine has, and is satisfied with the result, than with one who has gone to Venice while I am at Siena, and who writes to me that he likes the place.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Writing, Men, Thinking

  Walter Savage Landor, John Forster, Charles George Crump (1891). “Imaginary Conversations: Dialogues of sovereigns and statesmen. Dialogues of literary men”

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• Nothing is so foolish, they say, as for a man to stand for office and woo the crowd to win its vote, buy its support with presents, court the applause of all those fools and feel self-satisfied when they cry their approval, and then in his hour of triumph to be carried round like an effigy for the public to stare at, and end up cast in bronze to stand in the market place.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Winning, Men, Self

  Desiderius Erasmus (1986). “Literary and Educational Writings: Panegyricus and Philippum Austriaeducem. Moriae encomium. Dialogus Julius exclusus e coelis. Institutio principis christiani. Querela pacis”

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• A man really writes for an audience of about ten persons. Of course if others like it, that is clear gain. But if those ten are satisfied, he is content.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Writing, Men, Gains

  Alfred North Whitehead, Lucien Price (2001). “Dialogues of Alfred North Whitehead”, p.64, David R. Godine Publisher

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• One's need for loneliness is not satisfied if one sits at a table alone. There must be empty chairs as well.

  Karl Kraus

  Loneliness, Solitude, Needs

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & one-and-a-half truths: selected aphorisms”

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• The opening of a foreign trade, by making them acquainted with new objects, or tempting them by the easier acquisition of things which they had not previously thought attainable, sometimes works a sort of industrial revolution in a country whose resources were previously undeveloped for want of energy and ambition in the people: inducing those who were satisfied with scanty comforts and little work, to work harder for the gratification of their new tastes, and even to save, and accumulate capital, for the still more complete satisfaction of those tastes at a future time.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Ambition, Hard Work

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Principles of Political Economy: Mill's Works”, p.237, VM eBooks

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• Those desires that do not bring pain if they are not satisfied are not necessary; and they are easily thrust aside whenever to satisfy them appears difficult or likely to cause injury.

  Epicurus

  Pain, Desire, Causes

  Epicurus (1964). “Letters: Principles Doctrines, and Vatican Sayings Translated, with an Introd. and Notes, by Russel M. Geor. Indianapolis Merrill”

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• If the best company is that which we leave feeling most satisfied with ourselves, it follows that it is the company we leave most bored.

  Giacomo Leopardi

  Bored, Feelings, Bores

  Giacomo Leopardi, Ángel Flores (1966). “Poems and prose”

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• The possession of a camera can inspire something akin to lust. And like all credible forms of lust, it cannot be satisfied.

  Susan Sontag

  Photography, Inspire, Lust

  Susan Sontag (2011). “On Photography”, p.156, Macmillan

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• To be excited and at the same time satisfied; to desire and possess -that has been described somewhere as the wise man's idea of heaven.

  Alec Waugh

  Wise, Men, Ideas

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• My father cared a lot about me, but he never gave me the satisfaction of really knowing it. Hitting .390 wasn't enough for him. Nothing seemed to be. He was not trying to be mean. He was just seeing to it that I never got self-satisfied, that I worked hard to get the most out of what I had.

  George Brett

  Father, Mean, Knowing

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• I shall not be satisfied unless I produce something which shall for a few days supersede the last fashionable novel on the tables of young ladies.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Tables, Lasts, Produce

  Letter to Macvey Napier, November 5, 1841.

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• Production goes up and up because high pressure advertising and salesmanship constantly create new needs that must be satisfied: this is Admass- a consumer's race with donkeys chasing an electric carrot.

  J. B. Priestley

  Race, Needs, Pressure

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• Sometimes it looks as if, the better off they [nations] become, the bigger do they conceive the gap between what is actually their lot and what would be desirable, while in the poor countries large masses of people seem to be satisfied by merely surviving.

  Gunnar Myrdal

  Country, People, Would Be

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• You go through stages in your career that you feel very good about yourself. Then you feel awful, like, 'Why didn't I choose something else?' But overall I'm pretty satisfied that I made the right choice when I decided to be an actor.

  Gene Hackman

  Careers, Choices, Awful

  "Eighty-one Years. Seventy-nine Movies. Two Oscars. Not One Bad Performance". Interview with Michael Hainey, www.gq.com. June 1, 2011.

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• I've never met a truly creative person who was happy and satisfied with life.

  Terence Conran

  Creative, Mets, Persons

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• You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and pulled me from my hole, quenched my thirst and satisfied the burning in my soul.

  Bob Dylan

  Friendship, Dream, Giving

  Bob Dylan (2014). “The Lyrics: Since 1962”, p.467, Simon and Schuster

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• I believe in true love. But I am easily satisfied.

  Miguel de Icaza

  Believe, I Believe, I Believe In

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