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Jesus was not content to derive his ethics from the scriptures of his upbringing. He explicitly departed from them. [...] Since a principal thesis of… — Richard Dawkins
Everything is banal in experience, fleeting in duration, sordid in content; in all respects the same today as generations now dead and buried have found… — Marcus Aurelius
Why, I can smile and murder whiles I smile, And cry 'content' to that which grieves my heart, And wet my cheeks with artificial tears,… — William Shakespeare
HAPPY EVER AFTER is a concept I'll never believe in. I would be content to sample some little taste of happiness today, tonight, right now.… — Ellen Hopkins
What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less… — Hermann Hesse
Let men tremble to win the hand of woman, unless they win along with it the utmost passion of her heart! Else it may be… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Few things are needed to make a wise man happy; nothing can make a fool content; that is why most men are miserable. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld
Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing. — Ford Madox Ford
Ever since the dawn of civilization, people have not been content to see events as unconnected and inexplicable. They have craved an understanding of the… — Stephen Hawking
Till we can become divine, we must be content to be human, lest in our hurry for change we sink to something lower. — Anthony Trollope
Let me, if I may, be ever welcomed to my room in winter by a glowing hearth, in summer by a vase of flowers. If… — George MacDonald
Laments of an Icarus The paramours of courtesans Are well and satisfied, content. But as for me my limbs are rent Because I clasped the… — Charles Baudelaire
Effective listening is more than simply avoiding the bad habit of interrupting others while they are speaking or finishing their sentences. It's being content to… — Richard Carlson
Some make light of decisions, arguing that all possible decisions will occur. In such a world, how could one be responsible for his actions? Others… — Alan Lightman
For the first time, she did want more. She did not know what she wanted, knew that it was dangerous and that she should rest… — Iain Pears
I may never be happy, but tonight I am content. Nothing more than an empty house, the warm hazy weariness from a day spent setting… — Sylvia Plath
I felt lonely and content at the same time. I believe that is a rare kind of happiness. — Stephen King
Design cannot rescue failed content. — Edward Tufte
Poor people never, or hardly ever, ask for an explanation of all they have to put up with. They hate one another, and content themselves… — Louis-Ferdinand Celine
we seem determined to give human qualities to objects and content to treat each other as things. — Sherry Turkle

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