#content

I'm content with the fact that I made a decent effort. That's what I've always worried about: that I wouldn't try hard enough. ↗

— Jack Nicholson

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Architecture will always express the technical and social progress of the country in which it is carried out. If we wish to give it the human content that it lacks, we must participate in the political struggle. ↗

— Oscar Niemeyer

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No human being is constituted to know the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth; and even the best of men must be content with fragments, with partial glimpses, never the full fruition. ↗

— William Osler

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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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The world of American politics is more contentious than it has ever been in my lifetime. ↗

— Chuck Palahniuk

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Paradise was always over there, a day’s sail away. But it’s a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home. ↗

— J. Maarten Troost

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Watch your manner of speech if you wish to develop a peaceful state of mind. Start each day by affirming peaceful, contented and happy attitudes and your days will tend to be pleasant and successful. ↗

— Norman Vincent Peale

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