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• We’re never satisfied when it comes to food. ‘You know what’d be good on this burger? A ham sandwich. Instead of a bun, let’s use two donuts. That way we can have it for breakfast. Look out McGriddle. Here comes the donut-ham-hamburger!’

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• The media is all over this Oui interview that Arnold did 25 years ago. Now, he's admitted he smoked pot, had group sex and didn't mind dating a girl that was out of shape and kind of fat if she satisfied him sexually. So, his handlers have stopped comparing him to Reagan and started comparing him to Clinton.

  Bill Maher

  Girl, Sex, Years

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• Passion, intellect, moral activity - these three have never been satisfied in a woman. In this cold and oppressive conventional atmosphere, they cannot be satisfied. To say more on this subject would be to enter into the whole history of society, of the present state of civilisation.

  Florence Nightingale

  Passion, Atmosphere, Would Be

  Florence Nightingale (2017). “Cassandra and Suggestions for Thought by Florence Nightingale”, p.184, Routledge

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• What can one say about Michael Jackson? He is one of the world's most acclaimed entertainers, an innovative and exciting songwriter whose dancing seems to defy gravity and has been heralded by the likes of Fred Astaire and Gene Kelly.
  His public is perhaps unaware of the extent of his dedication to his craft. Restless, seldom satisfied, he is a perfectionist who is constantly challenging himself. To many people Michael Jackson seems an elusive personality, but to those who work with him, he is not. This talented artist is a sensitive man, warm, funny, and full of insight.

  Jackie Kennedy

  Men, Dedication, Artist

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• I remind myself that Im always more satisfied by human interaction than by a digital connection.

  Maulik Pancholy

  Digital, Connections, Interaction

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• It is permissible to take life's blessings with both hands provided thou dost know thyself prepared in the opposite event to take them just as gladly. This applies to food and friends and kindred, to anything God gives and takes away... As long as God is satisfied do thou rest content. If he is pleased to want something else of thee, still rest content.

  Meister Eckhart

  Blessing, Hands, Opposites

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• God created our souls to be satisfied only with the divine everlastingness of the Word made flesh.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Soul, Flesh, Divine

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• The connoisseur of art must be able to appreciate what is simply beautiful, but the common run of people is satisfied with ornament.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Beautiful, Running, Art

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• It is a true observation of ancient writers, that as men are apt to be cast down by adversity, so they, are easily satiated with prosperity, and that joy and grief produce the same effects. For whenever men are not obliged by necessity to fight they fight from ambition, which is so powerful a passion in the human breast that however high we reach we are never satisfied.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Powerful, Grief, Ambition

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• No amount of misfortune will satisfy the man who is not satisfied
  with reading a hundred epigrams.

  Martial

  Reading, Men, He Man

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• To be satisfied with the acquittal of the world, though accompanied with the secret condemnation of conscience, this is the mark of a little mind; but it requires a soul of no common stamp to be satisfied with its own acquittal, and to despise the condemnation of the world.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Soul, Secret, Mind

  Charles Caleb Colton (1821). “Lacon: or, Many things in few words”, p.137

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• None is poor but the mean in mind, the timorous, the weak, and unbelieving; none is wealthy but the affluent in soul, who is satisfied and floweth over.

  Martin Farquhar Tupper

  Mean, Soul, Mind

  Martin Farquhar Tupper (1860). “Tupper's Complete Poetical Works: Containing "Proverbial Philosophy," "A Thousand Lines," "Hactenus," "Geraldine," and "Miscellaneous Poems"”, p.185

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• Be satisfied, and pleased with what thou art, Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part; Enjoy the present hour, be thankful for the past, And neither fear, nor wish, the approaches of the last.

  Martial

  Art, Past, Being Thankful

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• Young people are dazzled by the brilliancy of antithesis, and employ it. Matter-of-fact men, and those who like precision, naturally fall into comparisons and metaphor. Sprightly natures, full of fire, and whom a boundless imagination carries beyond all rules, and even what is reasonable, cannot rest satisfied even with hyperbole. As for the sublime, it is only great geniuses and those of the very highest order that are able to rise to its height.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Fall, Men, Order

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• Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.

  Honore de Balzac

  Mother, Passion, Vices

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• There are some who affect a want of affectation, and flatter themselves that they are above flattery; they are proud of being thought extremely humble, and would go round the world to punish those who thought them capable of revenge; they are so satisfied of the suavity of their own temper that they would quarrel with their dearest benefactor only for doubting it.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Revenge, Humble, Doubt

  Charles Caleb Colton (1832). “Lacon: Or Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.42

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• Pride differs in many things from vanity, and by gradations that never blend, although they may be somewhat indistinguishable. Pride may perhaps be termed a too high opinion of ourselves founded on the overrating of certain qualities that we do actually possess; whereas vanity is more easily satisfied, and can extract a feeling of self-complacency from qualifications that are imaginary.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Pride, Vanity, Self

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

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• Do you reckon Tom Sawyer was satisfied after all them adventures?

  Mark Twain

  Book, Adventure, Sawyer

  Mark Twain (2015). “Tom Sawyer Abroad”, Library of Alexandria

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• Being well satisfied that, for a man who thinks himself to be somebody, there is nothing more disgraceful than to hold himself up as honored, not on his own account, but for the sake of his forefathers. Yet hereditary honors are a noble and splendid treasure to descendants.

  Plato

  Men, Thinking, Honor

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• I belong to an ancient, idle, wild and useless tribe, perhaps I am even one of the last members of it, who for many thousands of years, in all countries and parts of the world, has, now and again, stayed for a time among the hard-working honest people in real life, and sometimes has thus been fortunate enough to create another sort of reality for them, which in some way or another, has satisfied them. I am a storyteller.

  Isak Dinesen

  Country, Real, Hard Work

  Isak Dinesen, Karen Blixen (1987). “On Modern Marriage and Other Observations”

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• Instead of being satisfied to alleviate suffering, we shall labor hard and continually to prevent it.

  Helen Keller

  Suffering, Alleviate, Labor

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.74, American Foundation for the Blind

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• It is not the nature of avarice to be satisfied with anything but money. Every passion that acts upon mankind has a peculiar mode of operation. Many of them are temporary and fluctuating; they admit of cessation and variety. But avarice is a fixed, uniform passion.

  Thomas Paine

  Passion, Peculiar, Uniforms

  Thomas Paine (2015). “Common Sense, The Crisis, & Other Writings from the American Revolution: (Library of America Paperback Classic)”, p.333, Library of America

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• When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

  Blaise Pascal

  Views, Sides, Argument

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• The world is satisfied with words. Few appreciate the things beneath.
  [Fr., Le monde se paye de paroles; peu approfondissement les choses.]

  Blaise Pascal

  Appreciate, World, Parole

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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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