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• Curiosity is the most superficial of all the affections; it changes its object perpetually; it has an appetite which is very sharp, but very easily satisfied, and it has always an appearance of giddiness, restlessness and anxiety.

  Edmund Burke

  Anxiety, Curiosity, Affection

  Edmund Burke (1824). “A Philosophical Inquiry Into the Origin of Our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful”, p.24

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• I'm so devoted to my music and becoming the best artist I can be. I don't want to devote too much time to anything else before I say I've conquered that. I just wanna become bigger and I'm never satisfied with just what I am today, I just always want to be bigger. If I was Bill Gates, I would double Bill Gates. That's the mindstate you should keep in any profession, just keep striking iron and trying to get bigger and better.

  Fabolous

  Artist, Becoming The Best, Iron

  Source: www.complex.com

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• You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really. I feel blessed 'cause I'm doin' all these things, but I'm not satisfied. I still have that feeling like, "Who am I? Who am I to have an ego? Who am I to change up and act like some Hollywood character?" Technically, in the grand scheme of things, I haven't done anything.

  J. Cole

  Blessed, Character, Ego

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Ah, I often think it's wi' th' old folks as it is wi' the babies; they're satisfied wi' looking, no matter what they're looking at. It's God A'mighty's way o' quietening 'em, I reckon, afore they go to sleep.

  George Eliot

  Baby, Sleep, Thinking

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• May we be satisfied with nothing that shall not have in it something of immortality.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  May, Immortality

  Henry Ward Beecher (1867). “Prayers from Plymouth Pulpit”, p.236

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• We can understand that the Fathers of the Church in the East wanted Apocalypse left out of the New Testament. But like Judas among the disciples, it was inevitable that it should be included. The Apocalypse is the feet of clay to the grand Christian image. And down crashes the image, on the weakness of these very feet. There is Jesus--but there is also John the Divine. There is Christian love--and there is Christian envy. The former would "save" the world--the latter will never be satisfied till it has destroyed the world. They are two sides of the same medal.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Christian, Jesus, Father

  D.H. Lawrence (1974). “Apocalypse”

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• It is a mere illusion that, above a certain income, the personal desires will be satisfied and leave a wider margin for the generous impulse.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Desire, Income, Wealth

  Robert Louis Stevenson (2016). “Familiar Studies of Men and Books: Stevenson's Vol. 16”, p.62, VM eBooks

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• The essence of Toryism is enjoyment?but as far as communicating and establishing your creed are concernedtrya little pleasure. The way to keep up old customs is, to enjoy old customs; the way to be satisfied with the present state of things is, to enjoy that state of things.

  Walter Bagehot

  Essence, Littles, Way

  1856 Essay on Macaulay.

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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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• I'm satisfied. I am progressively making my life and my name in the surest and purest manner. If I catch on in the theater, as I think I will, all the doors will gladly open wide for me.

  Federico Garcia Lorca

  Thinking, Doors, Names

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Ancient simplicity is gone...the people of today are satisfied with nothing but finery.

  Ihara Saikaku

  People, Simplicity, Gone

  "The Japanese Family Storehouse" by Ihara Saikaku, (Book I, ch. 4), 1688.

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• I am satisfied with the dissatisfaction that never rests until it is satisfied and satisfied again.

  Smith Wigglesworth

  Dissatisfaction

  "Wigglesworth: The Complete Story". Book by Julian Wilson, 2002.

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• The wants of mankind are supplied and satisfied out of the gross values produced and created, and not out of the net values only.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Want, Mankind, Gross

  Jean Baptiste Say, Clement Cornell Biddle (1851). “A treatise on political economy”, p.69

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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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• 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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