#satisfy

In old times people used to try and square the circle; now they try and devise schemes for satisfying the Irish nation. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#devise #irish #nation #now #old

I found collaborating with congenial doctors about problems that physicists could help solve was very satisfying. I also like educating anybody who would listen! ↗

— John Cameron

#also #anybody #collaborating #congenial #could

Hack fiction exploits curiosity without really satisfying it or making connections between it and anything else in the world. ↗

— Vincent Canby

#between #connections #curiosity #else #exploits

I could do exploration in this particular career field, and it was a goal that, even if I didn't reach it, it was so high it seemed almost impossible, but even if I didn't reach it, I would still have a good time and a very satisfying career. ↗

— Duane G. Carey

#career #could #even #exploration #field

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body. ↗

— Joyce Cary

#does #guide #organized #politics #religion

So, for me, working with larger companies has often been very satisfying, precisely because of the ability of bringing critical mass to bear on a given effort. ↗

— Vinton Cerf

#bear #because #been #bringing #companies

It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. ↗

— Richard Steele

#any #care #endless #frivolous #minds

In today's world, marketers reach inside the home and attempt to figure out not what's good for your daughter, because that is not their business, but what deep desires they can manipulate, stimulate and ostensibly satisfy in order to produce cold, hard cash. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#because #business #cash #cold #daughter

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #him

Because Lincoln is so closely identified with what it is to be American, everyone wants to claim him, to rewrite his story to satisfy their own particular needs. For my own people, it was important to imagine him as the Great Emancipator, the Moses who led us out of slavery. ↗

— Henry Louis Gates

#because #claim #closely #everyone #great