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Wednesday, July 3rd, 2024
the Week of Proper 8 / Ordinary 13
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Quotations regarding 'Content'

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His genius he was quite content in one brief sentence to define; Of inspiration one percent, of perspiration, ninety nine.
Thomas A. Edison, American Inventor (1847-1931)
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Jonathan Edwards, American Clergyman (1703-1758)
They lyrical content has grown more introspective and less abstract. I don't know if that's good or bad... Sometimes it feels a little raw to be putting so much of myself out there.
Mark Edwards, American Celebrity
To rejoice in another's prosperity is to give content to your lot; to mitigate another's grief is to alleviate or dispel your own.
Tryon Edwards, American Theologian
People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
Ralph Waldo Emerson, American Poet (1803-1882)
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
Epictetus, Greek Philosopher
What difference is there, do you think, between those in Plato's cave who can only marvel at the shadows and images of various objects, provided they are content and don't know what they miss, and the philosopher who has emerged from the cave and sees the real things?
Desiderius Erasmus, Philosopher (1466-1536)
But I just really think there is a natural extension into other types of media because it's an excellent system for reliably locating and retrieving content.
Shawn Fanning, American Businessman (1980-  )
After closely examining my conscience, I venture to state that in my historical novels I intended the content to be just as modern and up-to-date as in the contemporary ones.
Lion Feuchtwanger, German Novelist (1884-1958)
True contentment comes with empathy.
Tim Finn, New Zealander Musician (1952-  )
As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with.
Lord Thomson of Fleet, Canadian Publisher (1894-1976)
Content is a word unknown to life; it is also a word unknown to man.
John Fowles, English Novelist (1926-2005)
Who is wise? He that learns from everyone. Who is powerful? He that governs his passions. Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
Content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor.
Benjamin Franklin, American Politician (1706-1790)
This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.
Morgan Freeman, American Actor (1937-  )
Nature is inside art as its content, not outside as its model.
Marilyn French, American Author (1929-  )
Obviously one must hold oneself responsible for the evil impulses of one's dreams. In what other way can one deal with them? Unless the content of the dream rightly understood is inspired by alien spirits, it is part of my own being.
Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist (1856-1939)
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.
Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist (1856-1939)
Contentment consist not in adding more fuel, but in taking away some fire.
Thomas Fuller, English Clergyman (1608-1661)
 
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