Satisfactory Quotes

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I've not got a first in philosophy without being able to muddy things pretty satisfactory. — John Banham
Create or perish is the eternal mandate of nature. Be constructive or become frustrated is an equal demand. You cannot escape the conclusion that whatever… — Ernest Holmes
I see no reason why Indians who can give satisfactory proof of having by their own labor supported their families for a number of years,… — Rutherford B. Hayes
It is better and more satisfactory to acquit a thousand guilty persons than to put a single innocent one to death. — Maimonides
Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably… — Charles Darwin
The obligation to earn one's bread by the sweat of one's brow also presumes the right to do so. A society in which this right… — Pope John Paul II
Although a biologist, I must confess I do not understand how life came about...Â I consider that life only starts at the level of a… — Werner Arber
Experience shows that great enterprises seldom end with a tidy and satisfactory flourish. Together, we are doing our best to re-establish peace and civil order… — Queen Elizabeth II
In their zeal for particular kinds of decisions to be made, those with the vision of the anointed seldom consider the nature of the:Â process:Â… — Thomas Sowell
How do you listen? Do you listen with your projections, through your projection, through your ambitions, desire, fears, anxieties, through hearing only what you want… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
The natural tendency of every government is to grow steadily worse-that is, to grow more satisfactory to those who constitute it and less satisfactory to… — H. L. Mencken
Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic… — James Burnham
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest… — Aleister Crowley
To achieve satisfactory investment results is easier than most people realize; to achieve superior results is harder than it looks. — Benjamin Graham
We had to be parents by long distance, which is far from satisfactory. — Jeffrey Hunter
Both sides were supposed to release all their prisoners, those were unconditional. There was some prisoner release that took place but it's not been satisfactory. — Warren Christopher
Therefore I begin to think, my Lord, you purposely allow us to be brought into contact with the bad and evil things that You want… — Hannah Hurnard
These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as… — David Hume
Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an… — Ludwig von Mises
Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is… — Charles Sanders Peirce

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