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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are thus quite in tune with the oldest traditions of the country. ↗

— Hannah Arendt

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Be content with what you are, and wish not change; nor dread your last day, nor long for it. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

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Discontent is the first necessity of progress. ↗

— Thomas A. Edison

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The mystery of the beginning of all things is insoluble by us; and I for one must be content to remain an agnostic. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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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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American literature has never been content to be just one among the many literatures of the Western World. It has always aspired to be the literature not only of a new continent but of a New World. ↗

— Christopher Dawson

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Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with the fictions we manufacture out of each other. ↗

— Lawrence Durrell

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We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it. ↗

— Billy Bragg

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I'm content. I want to have better success in the tournaments than I've had, but I know I'm playing well, so I'm happy with that. ↗

— David Duval

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To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible. ↗