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• It is nice when things end. That is what stories do - they end. It is hard to write endings and it is hard to come to the end of things, but I think when it is done right, it is a very satisfying way to appreciate something.

  Jon Hamm

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

  "Jon Hamm Talks FRIENDS WITH KIDS and the End of MAD MEN". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. September 17, 2011.

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• It is only when it takes the form of physical addiction that sex is evil. It is also evil when it manifests itself as a way of satisfying the lust for power or the climber's craving for position and social distinction.

  Aldous Huxley

  Sex, Evil, Addiction

  Aldous Huxley (1937). “Ends and Means: An Inquiry Into the Nature of Ideals and Into the Methods Employed for Their Realization”, p.358, Transaction Publishers

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• All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

  Jane Addams

  Democracy, Glimpse, Hints

  Jane Addams (2016). “Democracy and Social Ethics”, p.15, Youcanprint

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• The promotion of human rights cannot be about exhortation alone. At times, it must be coupled with painstaking diplomacy. I know that engagement with repressive regimes lacks the satisfying purity of indignation. But I also know that sanctions without outreach -- condemnation without discussion -- can carry forward only a crippling status quo. No repressive regime can move down a new path unless it has the choice of an open door.

  Barack Obama

  Moving, Rights, Doors

  Nobel Prize for Peace Acceptance Speech and Lecture, delivered 10 December 2009, Oslo City Hall, Oslo, Norway

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• Love can't flourish in a "society" based on money and meaningless work, but rather requires complete economic, as well as personal, freedom, leisure time and the opportunity to engage in intensely absorbing, emotionally satisfying activities which, when shared with those you respect, lead to deep friendship, but which our "society" provides practically no opportunity to engage in.

  Valerie Solanas

  Opportunity, Our Society, Leisure

  Manifesto by Valerie Solanas, 1967.

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• Seeing ongoing political reforms that have a real impact on people all over the world is extremely satisfying. But we want every person who's having a dispute with their kindergarten to feel confident about sending us material.

  Julian Assange

  Real, Impact, People

  "Inside WikiLeaks’ Leak Factory". Interview with David Kushner, www.motherjones.com. April 6, 2010.

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• I did not get my picture of the world by satisfying myself of its correctness; nor do I have it because I am satisfied of its correctness. No: it is the inherited background against which I distinguish between true and false.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Reality, True And False, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1969). “On Certainty”

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• The good or healthy society would then be defined as one that permitted people's highest purposes to emerge by satisfying all their basic needs.

  Abraham Maslow

  People, Healthy, Needs

  "Motivation and Personality". Book by Abraham Maslow, p. 31, 1954.

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• People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end. Just as money, which is a means of satisfying wants, comes to be regarded by a miser as the sole thing to be worked for, leaving the wants unsatisfied; so the conduct men have found preferable because most conducive to happiness, has come to be thought of as intrinsically preferable: not only to be made a proximate end (which it should be), but to be made an ultimate end, to the exclusion of the true ultimate end.

  Herbert Spencer

  Mistake, Mean, Men

  "The Principles of Ethics" by Herbert Spencer, New York, (§ 14, pp. 38-39), 1915.

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• Knowing how to calculate something is not the same as understanding it. Having a computer to calculate the origin of mass for us may be convincing, but is not satisfying. Fortunately we can understand it too.

  Frank Wilczek

  Knowing, Understanding, May

  "The Lightness of Being - Mass, Ether and the Unification of Forces". Book by Frank Wilczek, 2008.

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• MCJOB: A low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice for people who have never held one.

  Douglas Coupland

  Jobs, Careers, People

  1991 Generation X,'The Sun IsYour Enemy'.

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• The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

  Anatol Rapoport

  Player, Games, Outcomes

  "Game Theory as a Theory of Conflict Resolution" by Anatol Rapoport, (p. 4), 1974.

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• [Comics] were viewed as the literary equivalent of bubblegum cards, meant to be poked into the spokes of a young mind where they would produce a satisfying but entirely bogus rumble of pleasure.

  Michael Chabon

  Mind, Cards, Pleasure

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• The challenge in any musical is unifying all the moving parts of it, in particular a movie musical because now you're adding the camera and you're adding the idea of adaptation. So the challenge is to stay as true as you can to the material that you love and yet not be afraid to step outside of it and introduce elements into it that make it exist in a satisfying, exciting way cinematically.

  Marc E. Platt

  Moving, Ideas, Challenges

  Source: collider.com

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• In the right situation, acting on television can be extraordinarily satisfying creatively. But that's incredibly rare. Otherwise, it can be like working in a really remunerative coal mine. That's the down side.

  Bradley Whitford

  Acting, Sides, Coal

  "Bradley Whitford on Happyish, The West Wing, and his high heels on Transparent". Interview with Will Harris, tv.avclub.com. June 16, 2015.

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• I'm not in the business of satisfying everybody. I'm in the business of trying to satisfy the people who elected me governor.

  Chris Christie

  People, Trying, Governors

  Chris Christie's news conference on George Washington Bridge scandal, www.washingtonpost.com. January 9, 2014.

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• Political realism is aware of the moral significance of political action. It is also aware of the ineluctable tension between the moral command and the requirements of successful political action. And it is unwilling to gloss over and obliterate that tension and thus to obfuscate both the moral and the political issue by making it appear as though the stark facts of politics were morally more satisfying than they actually are, and the moral law less exacting than it actually is.

  Hans Morgenthau

  Successful, Law, Issues

  Hans Joachim Morgenthau (1993). “Politics Among Nations: The Struggle for Power and Peace”, McGraw-Hill Humanities Social

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• Most artists try to break your heart, or they accidentally break their own hearts.But I find the quietness in the ordinary much more satisfying.

  Robert Rauschenberg

  Heart, Artist, Trying

  2004 In the NewYorkTimes,15 Feb.

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• Women believe -- or at least often pretend to believe -- that all our tenderness for them springs from desire; that we love them when we have not for a time enjoyed them, and dismiss them when we are sated, or to express it more precisely, exhausted. There is no truth in this idea, though it may be made to appear true. When we are rigid with desire, we are apt to pretend a great tenderness in the hope of satisfying that desire; but at no other time are we in fact so liable to treat women brutally, and so unlikely to feel any deep emotion but one.

  Gene Wolfe

  Spring, Women, Believe

  Gene Wolfe (1994). “Shadow & Claw: The First Half of 'The Book of the New Sun'”, p.372, Macmillan

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• Nothing in the world excites the culture today so much as a question. A question seems very appropriate to whatever you have in mind. Allowing your work to remain questionable is a way of satisfying your cultural condition.

  Milton Resnick

  Mind, Culture, World

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• If I'm teaching deep things, then I view it as important to make people feel like they're learning deep things, because otherwise, they will still have a hole in their mind for "deep truths" that needs filling, and they will go off and fill their heads with complete nonsense that has been written in a more satisfying style.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Teaching, Views, People

  "Eliezer_Yudkowsky comments on Mind Control and Me - Less Wrong". lesswrong.com. March 21, 2009.

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• A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.

  Joseph Alleine

  Men, Wrath, Justice

  Joseph Alleine (1816). “An Alarm to Unconverted Sinners, in a Serious Treatise”, p.107

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• ...situations evolve as matter responds to the conditioning of time and space...If you know what is contained in time from its beginning to its end you are somehow no longer in time. Even though you still have a body and still eat and do what you do, you have discovered something that liberated you into a satisfying all-at-oneness.

  Terence McKenna

  Oneness, Space, Unity

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• In writing and speaking, three is more satisfying than any other number.

  Carmine Gallo

  Writing, Numbers, Three

  Carmine Gallo (2014). “Talk Like TED: The 9 Public-Speaking Secrets of the World's Top Minds”, p.195, St. Martin's Press

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• It's been very satisfying to design a range which is all about shape. It's not about what size you are, it's about how you can minimise or accentuate parts of your body with clothing. That's what we've created.

  Susannah Constantine

  Design, Body, Shapes

  "These Girls Could Save Your Marriage". www.express.co.uk. September 24, 2007.

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