Content Quotes
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The refusal to rest content, the willingness to risk excess on behalf of one`s obsessions, is what distinguishes artists from entertainers, and what makes some artists adventurers on behalf of us all.
John Updike
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and can never soar.
John Henry Newman
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
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He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
Socrates
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Learn to limit yourself; to content yourself with some definite work; dare to be what you are and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are not; and to believe in your own individuality.
Henri Frederic Amiel
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts: but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties.
Francis Bacon, Sr.
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The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.
Elbert Hubbard
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A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven.
Boethius
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Environments are not just containers, but are processes that change the content totally.
Marshall McLuhan
Keywords: are :: but :: change :: containers :: content :: environments :: just :: not :: processes :: that :: the :: totallySubject: Environment QuotesSource: thinkexist.com
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Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it.
Samuel Johnson
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I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Frustration is the first step towards improvement. I have no incentive to improve if I’m content with what I can do and if I’m completely satisfied with my pace, distance and form as a runner. It’s only when I face frustration and use it to fuel my ...
John Bingham
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The fundamental flaw of vulgar thought lies in the fact that it wishes to content itself with motionless imprints of a reality which consists of eternal motion.
Leon Trotsky
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Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin
Subject: Money QuotesSource: quotationspage.com
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
Abraham Lincoln
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The need for prostitution arises from the fact that many men are either unmarried or away from their wives on journeys, that such men are not content to remain continent, and that in a conventionally virtuous community they do not find respectable women.
Bertrand Russell
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People Magazine, November 3, 2006: "Rather than ignore those who choose to publish their opinions without actually talking to me, I am happy to dispel any rumors or misconceptions and am quite proud to say that I am a very content gay man living my life t...
Neil Harris
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Most people in the film community don`t really understand what being politically active means. They think it is just doing interviews. I`m content that the Hollywood left thinks being a political activist means riding Air Force One and hanging out with th...
Charlton Heston
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I look for an interesting and often times, fresh character. Something different that what is done all the time or than I`ve done recently. I look at who is directing. Those two variables as well as a third, which is the content and the quality of the scre...
William Baldwin
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You know, I`d say that aside from Mr. Ford`s [John Ford] help in my career, I`d lay any success I`ve had to not expecting too much. I never expected to become a star and was always content to stay two or three rungs down the ladder and last awhile. When I...
Ben Johnson
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In any woman`s life there`s a moment when we stand in front of a mirror and we`re not happy. It might be when we`re 32 and we think about what it will be like being 36, or when we`re 36 we might think of being younger. We`re never content with the way we ...
Shakira
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[on Charles Chaplin] Chaplin is all content and little form. Nobody could have shot a film in a more pedestrian way than Chaplin.
Stanley Kubrick
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I`m always sad I left dance. I`m just in my element when I`m in the dance world. I`m so much more content in my heart when I`m sitting on a dance floor in a studio. It sounds so cheesy but it`s just my home, it`s where I grew up, I`ve been doing it since ...
Neve Campbell
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Well, I never made big films to make big films; the scale`s been appropriate to the content.
Harold Ramis
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I was especially fascinated by memory studies. There was one that requested people`s good and bad memories, and then checked them for content. But non- pathological people, people who maintain a happy, healthy brain, couldn`t provide negative memories. Th...
Natalie Portman
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I swore to myself that I`d make it through drive, ambition and hard work. I wanted to know I got it that way and not because of my bloodlines. And I think there is no question why I got where I am today. I`m pretty content. I have a motto: expect nothing ...
Emilio Estevez
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You have to count on living every single day in a way you believe will make you feel good about your life - so that if it were over tomorrow, you`d be content with yourself.
Jane Seymour
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[on David Niven] Now if I could be David Niven, I`d be content. He knows how to live life. He`s charming, he`s amusing, he`s so up. An up man! I`m sure he`s also complicated, but he never lays it on you.
John Hurt
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I`ve always been content just to be working and making a modest living for my wife and child.
Abe Vigoda
