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Letter "D" » discontent
«Woman's discontent increases in exact proportion to her development»
«We are, perhaps, uniquely among the earth's creatures, the worrying animal. We worry away our lives, fearing the future, discontent with the present, unable to take in the idea of dying, unable to sit still.»
Author: Lewis Thomas
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Physician,
Writer)
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About:
Animals,
Earth,
Future
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Keywords:
Among the,
Among the Living,
die away,
discontent,
fearing,
take in,
unable,
uniquely,
worrying
«Unlimited economic growth has the marvelous quality of stilling discontent while maintaining privilege, a fact that has not gone unnoticed among liberal economists.»
Author: Avram Noam Chomsky
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Activist,
Linguist)
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Keywords:
discontent,
economic,
economic growth,
economists,
liberal,
Maintaining,
marvelous,
privilege,
stilling,
The Marvelous,
unlimited,
unnoticed
«Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.»
Author: John Steinbeck
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Novelist,
Writer)
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Keywords:
bastard,
discontent,
Fed,
Fields,
gnaw,
gnawed,
gnaws,
gnaw at,
prod,
prodded,
prodding,
shiver,
shivering,
shivers,
wanders,
yearning
«To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind: / All are not fit with them to stir and toil, / Nor is it discontent to keep the mind / Deep in its fountain.»
«Wealth and poverty: the one is the parent of luxury and indolence, and the other of meanness and viciousness, and both of discontent»