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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• How many times have you heard someone say If I had his money I'd do things my way Hmm, but little they know Hmm, it's so hard to find One rich man in ten with a satisfied mind.

  Bob Dylan

  Money, Men, Mind

  Song: A Satisfied Mind, Album: Saved, 1980

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• The people who do better and better work are people who are never satisfied. Cezanne would say, 'I think I've accomplished something,' but then he would immediately add, 'But it's not enough.

  David Galenson

  Thinking, People, Add

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• The precision of their goals allows conceptual artists to be satisfied that they have produced one or more works that achieve a particular purpose... a problem solved can free him to pursue new goals.

  David Galenson

  Artist, Goal, Purpose

  David W. Galenson (2011). “Old Masters and Young Geniuses: The Two Life Cycles of Artistic Creativity”, p.5, Princeton University Press

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• The noblest works of human art and pride show that their makers were not satisfied.

  Henry Abbey

  Art, Pride, Makers

  Henry Abbey (1879). “Poems”

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• Nobody's sex life is such that every experience is a ten. You may have to be satisfied with regular eights or sixes and even an occasional three.

  Kevin Leman

  Sex, Three, May

  Kevin Leman (2010). “Sheet Music: Uncovering the Secrets of Sexual Intimacy in Marriage”, p.10, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Morning, Night, Feet

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• Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents.

  Syama Prasad Mukherjee

  Motivational, Work, Views

  Speech delivered at Scottish Church College, Kolkata, December 7, 1935.

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• Let me assure you that I am not satisfied making $40-$50 million on the same volume of beer (as) CUB sells.

  Trevor O'Hoy

  Beer, Cubs, Volume

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• At first I thought I should be a second Beethoven; presently I found that to be another Schubert would be good; then gradually, satisfied with less and less, I resigned to be a Humperdinck.

  Engelbert Humperdinck

  Self Esteem, Firsts, Would Be

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• The more I read, the less I admire modern theology. the more I study the productions of the new schools of theological teachers, the more I marvel that men and women can be satisfied with such writings. There is a vagueness, a mistiness, a shallowness, an indistinctness, a superficiality, an aimlessness, a hollowness about the literature of the 'broader and kinder systems', as they are called, which to my mind stamps their origin on their face. They are of the earth, earthy.

  J. C. Ryle

  Teacher, Writing, School

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• I recently went to my staircase at Clare College, Cambridge and there were women there! There have been a lot of convincing studies recently about the loss of productivity in the Western male. It may be that entertainment culture now is so engaging that it keeps people satisfied. We didn't have that. Science was much more fun than listening to the radio. When you are 16 or 17 and in that inherently semi-lonely period when you are deciding whether to be an intellectual, many now don't bother.

  James D. Watson

  Lonely, Fun, Science

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• The intellectual who no longer feels attached to anything is not satisfied with opinion merely; he wants certainty, he wants a system. The revolution provides him with his opium.

  Raymond Aron

  Intellectual, Atheism, Want

  Raymond Aron (2001). “The Opium of the Intellectuals”, p.257, Transaction Publishers

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• I think people who struggle to define themselves might never be satisfied because there is no definition. Living with responsibility is important, but I don't really think you have to grow up.

  Kristen Bell

  Growing Up, Struggle, Responsibility

  "Kristen Bell Talks THE LIFEGUARD, Working with Liz Garcia, Finding Out She Was Pregnant During the Shoot, and the VERONICA MARS Movie". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. August 27, 2013.

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• It was not my intention to doubt that, the Doctrines of the Illuminati, and principles of Jacobinism had not spread in the United States. On the contrary, no one is more truly satisfied of this fact than I am.

  George Washington

  Doubt, Principles, United States

  In a letter to George Washington Snyder, October 24, 1798.

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• When every one is to cultivate himself into man, condemning a man to machine-like labor amounts to the same thing as slavery. If a factory-worker must tire himself to death twelve hours and more, he is cut off from becoming man. Every labor is to have the intent that the man be satisfied.... His labor is nothing taken by itself, has no object in itself, is nothing complete in itself; he labors only into another's hands, and is used (exploited) by this other.

  Max Stirner

  Taken, Cutting, Men

  "The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Cambridge edition, p. 108, 1995.

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