#content

Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites. ↗

— Lord Acton

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How can you be content to be in the world like tulips in a garden, to make a fine show, and be good for nothing. ↗

— Mary Astell

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. ↗

— Francis Bacon

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Never, never rest contented with any circle of ideas, but always be certain that a wider one is still possible. ↗

— Pearl Bailey

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I'm tired of people screaming about price and forgetting about the content. ↗

— David Baldacci

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Contention is inseparable from creating knowledge. It is not contention we should try to avoid, but discourses that attempt to suppress contention. ↗

— Joyce Appleby

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Writing a novel is one of those modern rites of passage, I think, that lead us from an innocent world of contentment, drunkenness, and good humor, to a state of chronic edginess and the perpetual scanning of bank statements. ↗

— J. G. Ballard

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Harrison Ford was pretty content as a carpenter who thought it would be nice to work on TV and ended up being the biggest film star in the history of cinema. ↗

— Dirk Benedict

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Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content... it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion. ↗

— Rene Daumal

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