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"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites."
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"Author: A fool who, not content with having bored those who have lived with him, insists on tormenting generations to come."

"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."

"If Michael Steele doesn't make you sad, well, then there's radio host Rush Limbaugh, no longer content with wanting the President to fail, Rush is now calling out Mr. Obama as a girly man."

"I endeavor to be wise when I cannot be merry, easy when I cannot be glad, content with what cannot be mended and patient when there be no redress."

"The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content."

"I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content."

"To be content with little is hard; to be content with much, impossible."

"I can't tell you what that little ingredient is which makes that first person want to go on and aggressively do more, and the other person be content to not do that. It's a mystery, but it does happen."
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"There is not a soul who does not have to beg alms of another, either a smile, a handshake, or a fond eye."

"Every thing secret degenerates, even the administration of justice; nothing is safe that does not show how it can bear discussion and publicity."

"And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that."

"The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern."

"The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the majority, or rather of that party, not always the majority, that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections."

"Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith."
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