#satisfied

If one is satisfied with things, one doesn't complain about the downsides that exist, either. ↗

— Georg Henrik von Wright

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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once. ↗

— Orville Wright

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Philosophical reflection could not leave the relation of mind and spirit in the obscurity which had satisfied the needs of the naive consciousness. ↗

— Wilhelm Wundt

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I don't think Hamas will be satisfied simply ruling the Gaza Strip. ↗

— John Bolton

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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal. ↗

— Samuel Butler

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When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.' ↗

— Dalai Lama

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There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row. ↗

— Golda Meir

#average man #blame #blames #doubt #his

I look back on my life like a good day's work, it was done and I am satisfied with it. ↗

— Grandma Moses

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You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#anger #angry #get #good #good loser

Doubt is an uneasy and dissatisfied state from which we struggle to free ourselves and pass into the state of belief; while the latter is a calm and satisfactory state which we do not wish to avoid, or to change to a belief in anything else. ↗

— Charles Sanders Peirce

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