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• The real leader has no need to lead he is content to point the way. (Henry Miller) [leader/content/point]
• People who are unable to motivate themselves must be content with mediocrity, no matter how impressive their other talents. (Andrew Carnegie) [people/content/matter]
• He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature. ( Socrates) [content/content/wealth/nature]
• He is the richest who is content with the least. ( Socrates) [content]
• Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. (Hannah Arendt) [devotion/content/changes/mind]
• Totalitarianism is never content to rule by external means, namely, through the state and a machinery of violence; thanks to its peculiar ideology and the role assigned to it in this apparatus of coercion, totalitarianism has discovered a means of dominating and terrorizing human beings from within. (Hannah Arendt) [tyranny/content/state/role]
• If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [willpower/willpower/content]
• In contemplation, if a man begins with certainties he shall end in doubts; but if he be content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties. (Francis Bacon) [content]
• Although personally I am quite content with existing explosives, I feel we must not stand in the path of improvement. (Winston Churchill) [content/path]
• Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man. (John Fowles) [content/life]
• Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He who is content. Who is that? Nobody. (Benjamin Franklin) [content]
• Content makes poor men rich; discontentment makes rich men poor. (Benjamin Franklin) [content/men/men]
• The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain flat and unconnected in the soul. Thus they are easily led by the opinions of others, are content to let their impressions be shuffled and rearranged and evaluated differently. (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe) [past/impressions/content/impressions]
• Woman cannot be content with health and agility: she must make exorbitant efforts to appear something that never could exist without a diligent perversion of nature. Is it too much to ask that women be spared the daily struggle for superhuman beauty in order to offer it to the caresses of a subhumanly ugly mate? (Germaine Greer) [content/health/agility/perversion]
• Who with a little cannot be content, endures an everlasting punishment. (Robert Herrick) [content/punishment]
• A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanged, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and the time in which it is used. (Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr) [color/content/time]
• How does it happen, Maecenas, that no one is content with that lot of which he has chosen or which chance has thrown his way, but praises those who follow a different course? ( Horace) [content/chance/follow]
• A continual feast of commendation is only to be obtained by merit or by wealth: many are therefore obliged to content themselves with single morsels, and recompense the infrequency of their enjoyment by excess and riot, whenever fortune sets the banquet before them. (Samuel Johnson) [feast/wealth/content/enjoyment]
• Life must be filled up, and the man who is not capable of intellectual pleasures must content himself with such as his senses can afford. (Samuel Johnson) [life/content]
• The teller of a mirthful tale has latitude allowed him. We are content with less than absolute truth. (Charles Lamb) [content/absolute/truth]
• To be content with life -- or to live merrily, rather --all that is required is that we bestow on all things only a fleeting, superficial glance; the more thoughtful we become the more earnest we grow. (Georg Christoph Lichtenberg) [content/life/more/more]
• My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure. (Abraham Lincoln) [content]
• Why, ever since Adam, who has got to the meaning of this great allegory -- the world? Then we pygmies must be content to have out paper allegories but ill comprehended. (Herman Melville) [allegory/content/paper]
• All my good reading, you might say, was done in the toilet. There are passages in Ulysses which can be read only in the toilet -- if one wants to extract the full flavor of their content. (Henry Miller) [reading/content]
• The real leader has no need to lead -- he is content to point the way. (Henry Miller) [leader/content/point]
• The most virtuous are those who content themselves with being virtuous without seeking to appear so. ( Plato) [content/being]
• Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground. (Alexander Pope) [wish/care/content]
• When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy. ( Seneca) [literary style/mind/content]
• My crown is in my heart, not on my head, Nor decked with diamonds and Indian stones, Nor to be seen: My crown is called content: A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. (William Shakespeare) [content]
• He is rich who is content with the least; for contentment is the wealth of nature. ( Socrates) [content/wealth/nature]
• I simply contend that the middle-class ideal which demands that people be affectionate, respectable, honest and content, that they avoid excitements and cultivate serenity is the ideal that appeals to me, it is in short the ideal of affectionate family life, of honorable business methods. (Gertrude Stein) [people/content/family/life]

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