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I believe that eating simple food in a healthy body with a clean conscience is more pleasurable, and infinitely more satisfying, then eating decadent food that makes you and your world ill.

John Robbins

Believe, Simple, Healthy

Robbins, John, Robbins, Ocean (2013). “Voices of the Food Revolution: You Can Heal Your Body and Your World with Food!”, p.251, Conari Press

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What is American music? The most satisfying answer I've come across is that it was a kind of natural comfort with the vernacular which is diverse and regional; it's not one particular set of sounds.

Carlisle Floyd

Sound, Comfort, Answers

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We can stop waiting for life to become perfect and start working with what we’ve got to make it as satisfying as we can. We can accept, bless, give thanks, and get going. Today, we can begin to call forth the riches from our everyday life. Today we can move from lack to abundance.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

Moving, Giving, Perfect

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A relationship that has any depth and power at all will inevitably penetrate our usual shield of defenses, exposing our most tender and sensitive spots, and leaving us feeling vulnerable - literally, 'able to be wounded.' To love, in this sense, is to open ourselves to being hurt. The dream of love would have us believe that something is wrong if a relationship causes us pain. Yet trying to avoid the wound of love only creates a more permanent kind of damage. It prevents us from opening ourselves fully, and this keeps us from ever forming a deeply satisfying intimate connection.

John Welwood

Dream, Hurt, Pain

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Playing the game is far more satisfying than reading the rules.

Bernard Haisch

Reading, Games

Bernard Haisch (2012). “The God Theory: Universes, Zero-point Fields and What's Behind It All: Easyread Large Edition”, p.6, ReadHowYouWant.com

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But if the life will not be easy, it will be rich and satisfying. For every young American who participates in the Peace Corps-who works in a foreign land-will know that he or she is sharing in the great common task of bringing to man that decent way of life which is the foundation of freedom and a condition of peace.

John F. Kennedy

Men, Land, Way

Kennedy, John F. (1962). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1961”, p.135, Best Books on

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I find it satisfying and intellectually stimulating to work with the intensity, brevity, balance and word play of the short story.

Annie Proulx

Hair, Play, Balance

"Exclusive PJH Interview: At close range with Annie Proulx". Interview with Matthew Testa, planetjh.com. December 7, 2005.

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The Aha! experience is much more satisfying when it's preceded by the huh experience.

Chip Heath

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I really think the biopic thing so rarely works, because peoples lives dont have a dramatic shape that can be satisfying.

Bill Condon

Thinking, Shapes, Dramatic

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Since the big band started I'm just always swamped with movies and things. It certainly pays the bills and it's very satisfying, because I get to write all these big charts and all this crazy music.

Brian Setzer

Movie, Crazy, Writing

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Censorship, I believe, is the most dangerous enemy to all human communication, and piety of intention is probably the most dangerous, the most virulent and the most self-satisfying.

Chuck Jones

Communication, Believe, Self

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Filled with great advice, practical support, and steamy, imaginative suggestions for how to have an exciting, challenging, satisfying sex life.

Karen X. Tulchinsky

Sex, Advice, Support

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[Professional politicians] don't mind if price controls cause shortages of health care. In fact, they welcome the prospect, because then they can impose rationing; they can impose priorities, and tell everyone how much of what kind of medical care they can have. And besides, ... there's that deeply satisfying rush of power.

Murray Rothbard

Priorities, Political, Mind

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I believe I know why it is satisfying to me to hear someone. When I can really hear someone, it puts me in touch with him; it enriches my life. It is through hearing people that I have learned all that I know about individuals, about personality, about interpersonal relationships.

Carl Rogers

Believe, People, Personality

Carl Rogers (1995). “A Way of Being”, p.26, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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There is a question whether faith can or is supposed to be emotionally satisfying. I must say that the thought of everyone lolling about in an emotionally satisfying faith is repugnant to me. I believe that we are ultimately directed Godward but that this journey is often impeded by emotion

Flannery O'Connor

Believe, Journey, Emotion

Flannery O'Connor (1988). “The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor”, p.100, Macmillan

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Ideally citizens are to think of themselves as if they were legislators and ask themselves what statutes, supported by what reasons satisfying the criterion of reciprocity, they would think is most reasonable to enact.

John Rawls

Thinking, Citizens, Reason

John Rawls (2001). “The Law of Peoples: With, The Idea of Public Reason Revisited”, p.56, Harvard University Press

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Many have questioned the quality of this sort of achievement, deploring the use of pitons, tension traverses and expansion bolts, but the record speaks for itself. This is a technical age and climbers will continue in the future to look for new routes. There is nothing more satisfying than being a pioneer.

Allen Steck

Climbing, Achievement, Age

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... We have quite a large area, and that makes it more fun for us - certainly more satisfying, because it doesn't restrict us to one particular idea or one particular style. The result, I think, is pretty interesting ... we don't expect to make a fortune at it or ever be popular or famous or worshipped or hit The Ed Sullivan Show or the circuses or the big top. As long as we can play, we'll play, regardless of what it's for, who it's for or anything. It's fun for us - that's the important thing.

Jerry Garcia

Music, Fun, Thinking

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The average Christian is so cold and so contented with His wretched condition that there is no vacuum of desire into which the blessed Spirit can rush in satisfying fullness.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Christian, Blessed, Average

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I do not deny that many appear to have succeeded in a material way by cutting corners and by manipulating associates, both in their professional and in their personal lives. But material success is possible in this world and far more satisfying when it comes without exploiting others.

Alan Greenspan

Life, Success, Business

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But if we leave them alone, just satisfying ourselves with social work, economic work and the building up of a national army, it can make progress, hopefully within a short time.

Bulent Ecevit

Army, Building Up, Leave Me Alone

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Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world.

Vincent Canby

Curiosity, Connections, Fiction

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Make your goal to attend to your underlying needs and to aim for a resolution so satisfying that everyone involved has their needs met also.

Marshall B. Rosenberg

Communication, Goal, Needs

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On the free market, everyone earns according to his productive value in satisfying consumer desires. Under statist distribution, everyone earns in proportion to the amount he can plunder from the producers.

Murray Rothbard

Desire, Anarchy, Plunder

Murray N. Rothbard (2004). “Man, Economy, and State with Power and Market, Scholar's Edition”, p.1363, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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Jack Campbell's dazzling new series is military science fiction at its best. Not only does he tell a yarn of great adventure and action, but he also develops the characters with satisfying depth. I thoroughly enjoyed this rip-roaring read, and I can hardly wait for the next book.

Catherine Asaro

Military, Rip, Book

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