#content

It is much simpler to buy books than to read them and easier to read them than to absorb their contents. ↗

— William Osler

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In seeking absolute truth we aim at the unattainable and must be content with broken portions. ↗

— William Osler

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As a rule, one should never place form over content. ↗

— Manuel Puig

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Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. ↗

— Camille Paglia

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It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months. ↗

— David Rockefeller

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George Orwell's contention was that it is a sure sign of trouble when things can no longer be called by their right names and described in plain, forthright speech. ↗

— Christopher Lasch

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It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything. ↗

— Laurel Lee

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Every time I bestow a vacant office I make a hundred discontented persons and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

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Every time I create an appointment, I create a hundred malcontents and one ingrate. ↗

— Louis XIV

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The most merciful thing in the world... is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

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