#contents

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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Discretion is nothing other than the sense of justice with respect to the sphere of the intimate contents of life. ↗

— Georg Simmel

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After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo. ↗

— Arthur Smith

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You are a real find and you keep me satisfied, up to a point. After all, I'm a malcontent and you can't change that. ↗

— Charles Baxter

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I have examined the stomach contents of seven aardvarks. ↗

— Louis Leakey

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The core political values of our free society are so deeply embedded in our collective consciousness that only a few malcontents, lunatics generally, ever dare to threaten them. ↗

— John McCain

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Utopianism also finds a receptive audience among the society's disenchanted, disaffected, dissatisfied, and maladjusted who are unwilling or unable to assume responsibility for their own real or perceived conditions but instead blame their surroundings, 'the system,' and others. They are lured by the false hopes and promises of utopian transformation and the criticisms of the existing society, to which their connection is tentative or nonexistent. Improving the malcontent's lot becomes linked to the utopian cause. Moreover, disparaging and diminishing the successful and accomplished becomes an essential tactic. No one should be better than anyone else, regardless of the merits or values of his contributions. By exploiting human frailties, frustrations, jealousies, and inequities, a sense of meaning and self-worth is created in the malcontent's otherwise unhappy and directionless life. Simply put, equality in misery -- that is, equality of result or conformity -- is advanced as a just, fair, and virtuous undertaking. Liberty, therefore, is inherently immoral, except where it avails equality. ↗

— Mark R. Levin

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One person who has mastered life is better than a thousand persons who have mastered only the contents of books, but no one can get anything out of life without God. ↗

— Meister Eckhart

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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book. ↗

— Walter Kaufmann

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