#content

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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A contented mind is the best source for trouble. ↗

— Plautus

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The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better. ↗

— Shimon Peres

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The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ↗

— Plato

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Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents. ↗

— Ezra Pound

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Or he can work it out as a metrical and formal exercise, but he will be disappointed in its content. The New Year's prospect fairly chills his daunting breast. ↗

— John C. Ransom

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Western civilization shapes the content of my films, provides me with subjects that haven't been used before. ↗

— Eric Rohmer

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But I fear, my lot being cast in Scotland, that beauty would not be content. ↗

— Anne Boyd

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I can eat a man, but I'm not sure of the fiber content. ↗

— Jenny Eclair

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If you would be just as content winning a local Golden Gloves fight as you would making a pile of money as a professional, then fine, go become a boxer. But if the whole idea is for you to get rich, my God, stay in school and learn a profession. ↗

— Gerald McRaney

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