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Ada Leverson Author
Satisfaction

"There is, of course, no joy so great as the cessation of pain; in fact all joy, active or passive, is the cessation of some pain, since it must be the satisfaction of a longing, even perhaps an unconscious longing."

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Bette Ford Author
Satisfaction

"I'm good at killing, I'm known as a bullfighter who kills well, and that I can kill well, that I can compete technically with my male peers in my technique in killing, gives me satisfaction."

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Arthur Schopenhauer Philosopher
Satisfaction

"Alle Befriedigung, oder was man gemeinhin Glu« ck nennt, ist eigentlich und wesentlich immer nur negativ und durchaus nie positiv. All satisfaction, or what iscommonlycalled happiness, is really and essentially always negative only, and never positive."

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Samuel Johnson Lexicographer, Essayist, Critic
Satisfaction

"The real satisfaction which praise can afford, is when what is repeated aloud agrees with the whispers of conscience, by showing us that we have not endeavored to deserve well in vain."

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James Cash Penney Businessman
Satisfaction

"Business is no longer a matter of profits alone. Profits must come through public confidence, and public confidence is given to any merchant in proportion to the service which he gives to the public."

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Leo Tolstoy Novelist, Philosopher
Satisfaction

"Man is meant for happiness and this happiness is in him, in the satisfaction of the daily needs of his existence."

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George Sand Novelist, Memoirist
Satisfaction

"To eat together is one of the greatest promoters of intimacy. It is the satisfaction in common of a material necessity of existence, and if you seek a loftier meaning in it, it is a communion."

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Lewis Thomas Physician, Author
Satisfaction

"We can take some gratification at having come a certain distance in just a few thousand years of our existence as language users, but it should be a deeper satisfaction, even an exhilaration, to recognize that we have such a distance still to go."

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John Calvin Theologian, Reformer
Satisfaction

"On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either."

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Martin Luther King, Jr. Civil Rights Leader
Satisfaction

"Liberalism provided me with an intellectual satisfaction that I never found in fundamentalism. I became so enamored of the insights of liberalism that I almost fell into the trap of accepting uncritically everything it encompassed."

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