"When an author is too meticulous about his style, you may presume that his mind is frivolous and his content flimsy."

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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."

Thomas Huxley, English Scientist

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"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."

Barry Gibb, English Musician

Content, Nothing, Songs

"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

Robert Smithson, American Artist

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"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

Edward Sapir, American Scientist

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"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

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"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

David Rockefeller, American Businessman

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"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Content, End, Man, Will

"The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers."

John Lawson, British Explorer

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"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."

Billy Bragg, British Musician

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"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

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"I am content with nothing, restless and ambitious... and I despise myself for the vanity, which formed half the stimulus to my exertions. Oh would that I were one of those plodding wise fools who having once set their hand to the plough go on nothing doubting."

"I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them."

"Questions about form seem as hopelessly inadequate as questions about content."

"As a matter of fact, a national language which spreads beyond its own confines very quickly loses much of its original richness of content and is in no better case than a constructed language."

"Be content to remember that those who can make omelettes properly can do nothing else."

"It is true that I am often startled and even angered and repulsed by the strange directions and provocative content of new forms that seem to pop up every few months."

"If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with doubts, he shall end in certainties."

"The Indians, I was now speaking of, were not content with the common Enemies that lessen and destroy their Country-men, but invented an infallible Stratagem to purge their Tribe, and reduce their Multitude into far less Numbers."

"We read our own political content into The Clash, and they accepted it."

"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."

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"Nothing is void of God, his work is everywhere his full of himself."

"The day which we fear as our last is but the birthday of eternity."

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"Everything is the product of one universal creative effort. There is nothing dead in Nature. Everything is organic and living, and therefore the whole world appears to be a living organism."

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"Whatever one of us blames in another, each one will find in his own heart."

"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."