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Let us not seek to satisfy our thirst for freedom by drinking from the cup of bitterness and hatred [nor] allow our creative protests to degenerate into physical violence.
Martin Luther King Jr.— Speech at the Lincoln Memorial, 28 Aug 1963, during the March on Washington.
Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed.
Mahatma Gandhi— Quoted in EF Schumacher, Small Is Beautiful
This is exactly the kind of thing Templeton is ceaselessly angling for – recognition among real scientists – and they use their money shamelessly to satisfy their doomed craving for scientific respectability. They tried it on with the Royal Society of London, and they seem to have found a compliant Quisling in the current President, Martin Rees, who, though not religious himself, is a fervent 'believer in belief'.
martin rees— Richard Dawkins (23 March 2010), Shame on the National Academy, retrieved on 2013-04-11
— on the US National Academy of Sciences hosting the announcement of the 2010 Templeton Prize
In the deep discovery of the Subterranean world, a shallow part would satisfy some enquirers.
— Chapter I. (Part II)
You can't satisfy everybody; especially if there are those who will be dissatisfied unless not everybody is satisfied.
Robert Nozick— Ch. 10 : A Framework for Utopia; The Framework as Utopian Common Ground, p. 320
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
karl marx— Che Guevara, Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution, 1960
It was six men of Hindustan To learning much inclined, Who went to see the Elephant (Though all of them were blind) That each by observation Might satisfy the mind.
john godfrey saxe— "The Blindmen and the Elephant", a poem based on ancient parables of blind men and an elephant.
Probability is a liberal art; it is a child of skepticism, not a tool for people with calculators on their belts to satisfy their desire to produce fancy calculations and certainties.
nassim nicholas taleb— p. 128 (The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable (2007))
Software engineering concerns methods and techniques to develop large software systems. The engineering metaphor is used to emphasize a systematic approach to develop systems that satisfy organizational requirements and constraints.
— Hans van Vliet (2007) Software Engineering: Principles and Practice. p. 2
For where money is the standard of everything, many vain, superfluous trades are bound to be carried on simply to satisfy luxury and licentiousness.
thomas moore— Utopia (English translation, 1556), book 2 (1516).
Il faut compter ses richesses par les moyens qu'on a de satisfaire ses de sirs. We must count our riches by the means we have to satisfy our desires.
Abbe Antoine-Fran c° ois Pre vost— 1731Histoire du chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut, ch.2.
After you have exhausted what there is in business, politics, conviviality, love, and so onand found that none ofthesefinally satisfy, or permanently wearwhat remains? Nature remains.
— 1876-77 Speciman Days,'NewThemes Entered Upon'.
Let's not be coy: you were hoping that I would satisfy all the desires you're too shy to name, or at least show you a good time. Now you hesitate, still holding on to me, but tempted to let me go.
michel faber— The Crimson Petal and the White, chapter 1 (2002)
By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;The sports of children satisfy the child.
Oliver Goldsmith— Line 153.
This Court, limited in function in accordance with that premise, does not serve its high purpose when it exceeds its authority, even to satisfy justified impatience with the slow workings of the political process. For when, in the name of constitutional interpretation, the Court adds something to the Constitution that was deliberately excluded from it, the Court, in reality, substitutes its view of what should be so for the amending process.
harlan, john marshall, ii— Dissenting in Reynolds v. Sims, 377 U.S. 533, 624-25 (1964).
The diverse natures of men, combined with the necessity to satisfy in some manner the sentiment which desires them to be equal, has had the result that in the democracies they have endeavored to provide the appearance of power in the people and the reality of power in an elite.
vilfredo pareto— page 97 (Manual of Political Economy)
Did satisfy myself mighty fair in the truth of the saying that the world do not grow old at all, but is in as good condition in all respects as ever it was.
Samuel Pepys— February 3, 1667
Greed is a bottomless pit which exhausts the person in an endless effort to satisfy the need without ever reaching satisfaction.
Erich Fromm— Ch. 4 (Escape from Freedom (1941))
Poetry is a bad medium for philosophy. Everything in the philosophical poem has to satisfy irreconcilable requirements: for instance, the last demand that we should make of philosophy (that it be interesting) is the first we make of a poem; the philosophical poet has an elevated and methodical, but forlorn and absurd air as he works away at his flying tank, his sewing-machine that also plays the piano.
Randall Jarrell— “Reflections on Wallace Stevens”, p. 127, originally in Partisan Review, Vol. 18, (May/June 1951)
The reason is not to glorify "bit chasing"; a more fundamental issue is at stake here: Numerical subroutines should deliver results that satisfy simple, useful mathematical laws whenever possible . [...] Without any underlying symmetry properties, the job of proving interesting results becomes extremely unpleasant. The enjoyment of one's tools is an essential ingredient of successful work .
donald knuth— Vol. II, Seminumerical Algorithms, Section 4.2.2 part A, final paragraph [Italics in source]
I find enough mystery in mathematics to satisfy my spiritual needs. I think, for example, that pi is mysterious enough (don't get me started!) without having to worry about God. Or if pi isn't enough, how about fractals? or quantum mechanics?
tom lehrer— Interview (June 1996)
I am no longer sure of anything. If I satiate my desires, I sin but I deliver myself from them; if I refuse to satisfy them, they infect the whole soul.
jean-paul sartre— Act 10, sc. 2
We have no sympathy with those who are controlled by ideas and passions which we neither understand nor feel. Thus they who live to satisfy the appetites do not believe it possible to live in and for the soul.
john lancaster spalding— pp. 239-240 (Aphorisms and Reflections (1901))
In enterprise modelling, we want to define the actions performed within an enterprise, and define constraints for plans and schedules which are constructed to satisfy the goals of the enterprise. This leads to the following set of informal competency questions:
— Temporal projection - Given a set of actions that occur at different points in the future, what are the properties of resources and activities at arbitrary points in time?
— Planning and scheduling - what sequence of activities must be completed to achieve some goal? At what times must these activities be initiated and terminated?
— Execution monitoring and external events - What are the effects of the occurrence of external and unexpected events (such as machine breakdown or the unavailability of resources) on a plan or schedule?
— Time-based competition - we want to design an enterprise that minimizes the cycle time for a product. This is essentially the task of finding a minimum duration plan that minimizes action occurrences and maximizes concurrency of activities.
— Michael Grüninger and Mark S. Fox (1995) "Methodology for the Design and Evaluation of Ontologies." p. 3-4
I saw that an humble man, with the blessing of the Lord, might live on a little, and that where the heart was set on greatness, success in business did not satisfy the craving; but that commonly with an increase of wealth the desire of wealth increased. There was a care on my mind so to pass my time that nothing might hinder me from the most steady attention to the voice of the true Shepherd
— p. 14 (The Journal of John Woolman (1774))
Because he loves me”, says the Lord I will rescue him; I will protect him, for he acknowledges my name He will call upon me, and I will answer him; I will be with him in trouble , I will deliver him and honor him. With long life I will satisfy him. And show him my salvation.
— Psalm (91:1-16}, in “Words of Wisdom, Too (1 January 1998)” p.218
The merit of Marx is that he suddenly produces a qualitative change in the history of social thought. He interprets history, understands its dynamic, predicts the future, but in addition to predicting it (which would satisfy his scientific obligation), he expresses a revolutionary concept: the world must not only be interpreted, it must be transformed. Man ceases to be the slave and tool of his environment and converts himself into the architect of his own destiny.
— Che Guevara "Notes for the Study of the Ideology of the Cuban Revolution" (8 October 1960)
The CIA, in its present state, is viewed by its Capitol Hill overseers as incapable of targeting Osama bin Laden. That leads to an irresistible impulse to satisfy Americans by pulverizing Afghanistan, a desire heightened by Friday's refusal of the country's Taliban rulers to give up bin Laden.
— Robert Novak, September 17, 2001 [75]
