"And didn't they say that, although curiosity killed the cat, satisfaction brought the beast back?"
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"Nothing ought in reason to mortify our self-satisfaction more that the considering that we condemn at one time what we highly approve and commend at another."
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"Satisfy a few to please many is bad."
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"Mannerism always wants to be finished and doesn't enjoy the process. Genuine, truly great talent, however, finds its greatest satisfaction in the production."
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"Every need whose true satisfaction is denied leads by necessity to faith."
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"When we have got it, we want something else."
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"Frustration is a bad experience. What you have to stress is the satisfaction."
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"Happiness today, I think, is for most people the satisfaction of the eternal suckling: to drink in more this, that, or the other."
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"There is a certain clinical satisfaction in seeing just how bad things can get."
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"Were we faultless, we would not derive such satisfaction from remarking the faults of others."
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"One of life's minor satisfactions is forgetting."
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"Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction."
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"Success rarely brings satisfaction."
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"The ego wants to want more than it wants to have. And so the shallow satisfaction of having is always replaced by more wanting."
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"At times, I have been criticized by some philosophers of education, who place me in postures that they classify pejoratively as 'revolutionary.' But I have had the satisfaction of being invited to work in societies making progressive efforts without wavering. They were changing, and so they called on me."
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"There is no lighter burden, nor more agreeable, than a pen. Other pleasures fail us or wound us while they charm, but the pen we take up rejoicing and lay down with satisfaction, for it has the power to advantage not only its lord and master, but many others as well, even though they be far away - sometimes, indeed, though they be not born for thousands of years to come."
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"Collecting is like sex; satisfaction renews and creates new appetites."
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"The object, Truth, or the satisfaction of the intellect, and the object, Passion, or the excitement of the heart, are, although attainable, to a certain extent, in poetry, far more readily attainable in prose."
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"The one who is doing his work and getting satisfaction from it is not the one the poverty bothers."
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"My rule, in which I have always found satisfaction, is, never to turn aside in public affairs through views of private interest; but to go straight forward in doing what appears to me right at the time, leaving the consequences with Providence."
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