"An author is a fool who, not content with boring those he lives with, insists on boring future generations."

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

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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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"Be content to seem what you really are."

Marcus Aurelius, Roman Soldier

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

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

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"Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content."

Vinton Cerf, American Inventor

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Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

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"Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is."

Daniel Boone, American Explorer

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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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"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."

Johan Huizinga, Dutch Historian

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"There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content."

Kevin Bacon, American Actor

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"Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease."

Richard Serra, American Sculptor

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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."

"Be content to seem what you really are."

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

"Movie distribution may very well have migrated fully to digital form by then, making a huge dent in the need to print film and physically distribute content."

"I can think of films that I'm producing right now that are extremely hard-hitting, graphic films, that nobody necessarily wants to see, graphic in terms of violence, of adult content and racial and historical subject matter."

"Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is."

"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."

"Revolution as an ideal concept always preserves the essential content of the original thought: sudden and lasting betterment."

"There are very few things that are purely conceptual without any hard content."

"Now when you have administrators deciding what sexuality is, and what's a taboo and what's not in terms of content, you got guys, like, Trent Lott who equates homosexuality with a disease."

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