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Content Quotes

"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites."

"Be not content with the best book; seek sidelights from the others; have no favourites."

Lord Acton, British Historian

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"I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it."

"I'm content to stand on tradition. I'm even more content to wipe my feet on it."

Aaron Allston, American Novelist

Content, Feet, Tradition

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"I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent."

"I strongly support the Bush Administration's clean diesel rules, which will reduce air pollution from diesel engines by more than 90 percent, and reduce the sulfur content of diesel fuel by more than 95 percent."

Steve Buyer, American Politician

Content, Pollution, Rules, Support

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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."

"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

Content, Months, Provocative

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"A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven."

"A man content to go to heaven alone will never go to heaven."

Boethius, Roman Philosopher

Content, Heaven, Man, Will

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"As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with."

"As for editorial content, that's the stuff you separate the ads with."

Lord Thomson of Fleet, Canadian Publisher

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"I knew style and content went hand in hand."

"I knew style and content went hand in hand."

Boy George, English Musician

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

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

Charles de Montesquieu, French Philosopher

Content, Fool, Future, Generations

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"Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works."

"Anybody whose mind is functioning at all can't be content with the way the world works."

Frederick Wiseman, American Director

Content, Mind, World

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"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."

"There's probably a way to use that great content and to live under the radar now and then in order to reach a new audience. That's the thinking I'm talking about."

John Tesh, American Musician

Content, Now, Order, Talking

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"For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser."

"For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish online only needed to worry about the graphical web browser."

Mike Davidson, American Designer

Content, First, Worry

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"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."

"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

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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."

"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

Content, Enjoyment, Man, Philosophy

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"There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter."

"There is just so much stuff in the world that, to me, is devoid of any real substance, value, and content that I just try to make sure that I am working on things that matter."

Dean Kamen, American Inventor

Content, Value, World

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"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."

"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."

Elizabeth Montagu, British Writer

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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."

"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

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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."

"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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"It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content."

"It was immediately clear to me that security was a cross-cutting issue, so rather than dividing the space up in parallel with each of the other areas, I wanted security cut across the areas in addition to having its own content."

Steve Crocker, American Businessman

Content, Security, Space

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"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."

"One often thinks that using 2 different things like visual and sound lead to 2 different conclusions - to a different content - but in in my case it is all one."

Alva Noto, German Artist

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"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."

"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."

Aaron Eckhart, American Actor

Content, Now, Right, Violence

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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."

"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

Content, Fact, Language, Richness

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"Be content to seem what you really are."

"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."

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

Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Roman Statesman

Content, May, Mind, Style

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

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

Robert Smithson, American Artist

Content, Questions

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"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."

"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

Content, Country, Enemies, Now

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"As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content."

"As far as Beau is concerned, we're on the same team, we root for each other. If my parts are slightly more attractive, or are perceived that way by others, he's very content."

Jeff Bridges, American Actor

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"I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here."

"I don't want a player that's content with not playing... But we wanted to play the guys that got us here."

Don Shula, American Coach

Content, Play, Want

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

"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

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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 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

Content, Fools, Nothing, Vanity

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

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

Hilaire Belloc, English Poet

Content, Nothing

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"It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?"

"It's hard to be ambitious if you're content, isn't it?"

Tucker Carlson, American Journalist

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

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

Billy Bragg, British Musician

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