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In 'Surprised by Grace:
God's Relentless
Pursuit of Rebels,' I
retell the story of Jonah
and show how Jonah
was just as much in
need of God's grace as
the sailors and the
Ninevites.
Tullian Tchividjian
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Be fearless in
the pursuit of
what sets your
goul on fire.
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Pursuit of desires, divine passions. Votes: 3

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Pursuit of knowledge under difficulties. Votes: 3

Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

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Pursuit of passion, dream of dreamers! Votes: 3

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Pursuit of excellence is desire for divine fulfilment. Votes: 3

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Pursuit of excellence is the desire for divine fulfilment. Votes: 3

Lailah Gifty Akita

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It is the dim haze of mystery that adds enchantment to pursuit. Votes: 3

Antoine Rivarol

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Pursuit of the approximate can conclude. Not so pursuit of the absolute. Votes: 3

Mason Cooley

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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. Votes: 3

Camille Paglia

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The Pursuit of Happiness: It sure seems to like a good chase, doesn't it? Votes: 3

Demetri Martin

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To play Trivial Pursuit with a life like mine could be said to be a form of homeopathy. Votes: 3

Alan Bennett

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God may not play dice but he enjoys a good round of Trivial Pursuit every now and again. Votes: 3

Federico Fellini

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Pursuit is a rather desperate act in itself. There's something kind of frantic about the notion of pursuit. Votes: 3

Michael Leunig

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Pursuit and possession are accompanied by states of consciousness so wide apart that they can never be united. Votes: 3

Jack London

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It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit. Votes: 3

Denis Waitley

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It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do. Votes: 3

Richard Steele

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It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do Votes: 3

Richard Steele

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God wants the whole person and He will not rest till He gets us in entirety. No part of the man will do" (101) - "The Pursuit of God Votes: 3

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's determination and commitment to an unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Votes: 3

Mario Andretti

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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 3

Thomas Jefferson

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As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time. Votes: 3

Denis Waitley

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The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement. Votes: 2

George Will

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The pursuit of truth does not permit violence on one's opponent. Votes: 2

Mahatma Gandhi

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The pursuit of perfection, then, is the pursuit of sweetness and light. Votes: 2

Matthew Arnold

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The pursuit, even of the best things, ought to be calm and tranquil. Votes: 2

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success Votes: 2

Robert Foster Bennett

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An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit. Votes: 2

Pliny the Elder

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Fanaticism comes from any form of chosen blindness accompanying the pursuit of a single dogma. Votes: 2

John Berger

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Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy. Votes: 2

Guillaume Apollinaire

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There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting. Votes: 2

John Kenneth Galbraith

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. Votes: 2

C.P. Snow

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There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy. Votes: 2

Joyce Grenfell

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All men are created equal and have the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 2

Thomas Jefferson

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Not to engage in the pursuit of ideas is to live like ants instead of like men. Votes: 2

Mortimer Adler

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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. And moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Votes: 2

Barry Goldwater

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. Votes: 2

George Bernard Shaw

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We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty; and individual liberty requires limited government. Votes: 2

Paul Ryan

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The pursuit of truth and beauty is a sphere of activity in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives. Votes: 2

Albert Einstein

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When I was growing up, I don't remember being told that America was created so that everyone could get rich. I remember being told it was about opportunity and the pursuit of happiness. Not happiness itself, but the pursuit. Votes: 2

Martin Scorsese

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Every one who is seriously involved in the pursuit of science becomes convinced that a spirit is manifest in the laws of the Universe-a spirit vastly superior to that of man, and one in the face of which we with our modest powers must feel humble. Votes: 2

Albert Einstein

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Love is simply the name for the desire and the pursuit of the whole. Votes: 1

Aristophanes

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I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything. Votes: 1

William Carey

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Individually, people are finding that a simpler lifestyle provides greater satisfaction than relentless pursuit of materialism. Votes: 1

Laurance Rockefeller

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My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit. Votes: 1

Charles Saatchi

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I am Gabrielle Anwar: mother, lover, daughter, sister, friend, and creator in the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 1

Gabrielle Anwar

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Self-awareness is not self-centeredness, and spirituality is not narcissism. 'Know thyself' is not a narcissistic pursuit. Votes: 1

Marianne Williamson

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. Votes: 1

Friedrich Nietzsche

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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy. Votes: 1

Parker Palmer

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The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope. Votes: 1

John Buchan

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You must be passionate, you must dedicate yourself, and you must be relentless in the pursuit of your goals. If you do, you will be successful. Votes: 1

Steve Garvey

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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. Votes: 1

Scott Adams

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way. Votes: 1

Thomas Jefferson

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I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue. Votes: 1

Barry Goldwater

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Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance. Votes: 1

David Blaine

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For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. Votes: 1

Georg Simmel

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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek. Votes: 1

Mario Andretti

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While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 1

Sarah Vowell

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I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth. Votes: 1

Kevin O'Leary

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Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness. It's like the ultimate rest. It's better than the best sleep you've ever had. It's a quieting of the mind. It sharpens everything, especially your appreciation of your surroundings. It keeps life fresh. Votes: 1

Hugh Jackman

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If the Olympic Games ever served a true altruistic purpose, they have long since outlived it. Yeah, the pursuit of athletic excellence, sportsmanship and international goodwill is plenty noble. But the modern Olympics are at best a vehicle for agitprop; at worst, a scandal magnet. Votes: 1

John Ridley

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There are still civil rights issues. There are still people who can't be visited by their spouse in the hospital because they're gay. These are humanitarian issues. At the end of the day, all you want is for people to be happy in the pursuit of life, love and liberty. Votes: 1

Brandi Carlile

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Trust is a careless pursuit. Votes: 0

Lauren Kate

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Study is a life long pursuit. Votes: 0

Rickson Gracie

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Genius - the pursuit of madness. Votes: 0

Criss Jami

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Love is the pursuit of shadows ... Votes: 0

Margaret Atwood

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Sport is a loathsome and dangerous pursuit. Votes: 0

Barry Humphries

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Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge. Votes: 0

Pete Carroll

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The pursuit of dreams is supernatural endeavours. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Be relentless in your pursuit for expansion. Votes: 0

Robert Greene

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Simplicity is the pursuit of the essential. Votes: 0

Mark Sheppard

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the engrossing pursuit of Americans is wealth. Votes: 0

Sarah Josepha Hale

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Living a daring life is zealous pursuit. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Men tire themselves in pursuit of rest. Votes: 0

Laurence Sterne

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. Votes: 0

Harriet Martineau

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Be Brave in the pursuit of beauty Votes: 0

Shu Uemura

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Love is the pursuit of the whole. Votes: 0

Plato

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The greatest sacred-adventure is the pursuit of dreams. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit Votes: 0

Arthur Miller

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Meditation is all about the pursuit of nothingness... Votes: 0

Hugh Jackman

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Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit Votes: 0

Paul Travis

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Gambling is a most foolish and imprudent pursuit. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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Indiscriminate pursuit of perfection infallibly leads to mediocrity. Votes: 0

Henry Fuseli

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The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost, Votes: 0

Sarah Lewis

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I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving. Votes: 0

Alicia Keys

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To new beginnings. To the pursuit of...somethingness. Votes: 0

Cecelia Ahern

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Vitality! That's the pursuit of life, isn't it? Votes: 0

Katharine Hepburn

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travel [is] flight and pursuit in equal parts. Votes: 0

Paul Theroux

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The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong Votes: 0

George W. Romney

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A life of ease is a difficult pursuit. Votes: 0

William Cowper

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Men tire themselves in the pursuit of sleep. Votes: 0

Laurence Sterne

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Be persistent in the pursuit of your dreams. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, Votes: 0

Ben Bradlee

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We find ourselves in the pursuit of our dreams. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory. Votes: 0

George Will

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The relentless pursuit of being different is very French. Votes: 0

Alain Ducasse

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Nothing can replace confidence and single-minded pursuit of purpose. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Be passionate persistent in the pursuit of your dreams. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Parenting should be a passion, not a part-time pursuit. Votes: 0

Ellen Hopkins

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It is the pursuit of happiness that thwarts happiness. Votes: 0

Viktor E. Frankl

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Going down in history is a dead end pursuit Votes: 0

Benny Bellamacina

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I'm in pursuit of what cannot be achieved: perfection. Votes: 0

Andrew Vachss

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The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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Don't lose your happiness on the pursuit for more Votes: 0

Mike Stud

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It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Eugene O'Neill

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The pursuit of a greater self is a holy-being. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Architects are by nature and pursuit, leaders and teachers. Votes: 0

Samuel

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There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure. Votes: 0

Max Eastman

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Reading is by far the most successful pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

John Grisham

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The pursuit of strength is inherently difficult and entirely worthwhile. Votes: 0

Mike Berry

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Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style. Votes: 0

Ada Louise Huxtable

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Replace your pursuit of success with the pursuit of contribution. Votes: 0

Peter Drucker

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The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession. Votes: 0

Albert Einstein

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People united in pursuit of a righteous cause are unstoppable Votes: 0

Desmond Tutu

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In your pursuit of godliness, have you left Jesus behind? Votes: 0

Elyse Fitzpatrick

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There is no greater fulfillment as the pursuit of dreams. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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In the pursuit of knowledge, no one should travel alone Votes: 0

C.S. Woolley

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Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure. Votes: 0

C. S. Lewis

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You have to want your dream enough to pursuit it. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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The pursuit of happiness is the source of all unhappiness. Votes: 0

Lulu

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A man in pursuit of greatness feels no little wants. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept. Votes: 0

Jerry Garcia

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It is the pursuit of happiness that makes people unhappy. Votes: 0

Piero Scaruffi

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The pursuit of excellence is the proper vocation of man. Votes: 0

Cassius Jackson Keyser

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Modern political speechwriting is not a high-minded pursuit for brilliant talents. Votes: 0

Alex Pareene

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No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work. Votes: 0

Beryl Markham

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Excellence is not a success but a persistent pursuit of perfection. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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I guess I'm in a trivial pursuit question. It's really weird. Votes: 0

Kevin Youkilis

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The pursuit of meaning, not happiness, is what makes life worthwhile. Votes: 0

Tom Rath

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The pursuit of truth, properly considered, shouldn't stop short of insanity. Votes: 0

Errol Morris

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My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence. Votes: 0

John Kluge

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I have defined poetry as a 'passionate pursuit of the Real. Votes: 0

Czeslaw Milosz

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I'm on the pursuit of awesomeness, excellence is the bare minimum. Votes: 0

Kanye West

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The pursuit of material gain is ultimately empty when measured against eternity. Votes: 0

Christopher Moore

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Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors. Votes: 0

Siri Hustvedt

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The pursuit of politics is religion, morality, and poetry all in one. Votes: 0

Madame de Stael

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The pursuit of happiness...is the greatest feat man has to accomplish. Votes: 0

Robert Henri

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Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance. Votes: 0

Claudio Silvestrin

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Courage is simply doing whatever is needed in pursuit of the vision Votes: 0

Peter Senge

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I'm definitely on the pursuit of perfection...I will always be learning. Votes: 0

Conor McGregor

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In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Happiness consists in the full employment of our faculties in some pursuit. Votes: 0

Harriet Martineau

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The pursuit of balance can create imbalance because sometimes something is true, Votes: 0

Daniel Okrent

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Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire. Votes: 0

Jennifer Lee

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The pursuit of mathematics is a divine madness of the human spirit. Votes: 0

Alfred North Whitehead

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The way of success is the way of continuous pursuit of knowledge. Votes: 0

Napoleon Hill

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The pursuit of life is passion to seek the presence of God. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. Votes: 0

Samuel Butler

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It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer. Votes: 0

Henri Nouwen

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Unlike flying or astral projection, walking through walls is an earthbound pursuit... Votes: 0

Chris Rock

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Litigation is the pursuit of practical ends, not a game of chess. Votes: 0

Felix Frankfurter

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In pursuit of happiness, smart people often end up dumbing down themselves. Votes: 0

Erol Ozan

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He can feel no little wants who is in pursuit of grandeur. Votes: 0

Johann Kaspar Lavater

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Neither the adventure of goodness nor the pursuit of righteousness gets headlines. Votes: 0

Eugene H. Peterson

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The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person. Votes: 0

Voltaire

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Play is a child's work and this is not a trivial pursuit. Votes: 0

Alfred Adler

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Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it. Votes: 0

P. T. Barnum

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One must espouse some pursuit, taking it kindly at heart and with enthusiasm. Votes: 0

Amos Bronson Alcott

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I'm pretty aware that the pursuit of perfection is, inherently, a flawed concept. Votes: 0

Jonny Wilkinson

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Photographers undervalue the use of the wastebasket in their pursuit of fine photography. Votes: 0

Ralph Steiner

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Pleasures seem solid in their pursuit; but are mere clouds in the enjoyment. Votes: 0

Thomas Brooks

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Fashion is the pursuit of perfection, Style is the acceptance of one's flaws. Votes: 0

Francesco Clemente

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Possessing talent is nothing more than the continuous pursuit of a life-long interest. Votes: 0

Bob Ross

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Leadership embraces activism; it is the outcome of a purposeful pursuit of goals. Votes: 0

John Baldoni

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True disputants are like true sportsmen: their whole delight is in the pursuit. Votes: 0

Alexander Pope

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I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions. Votes: 0

David Antin

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The pursuit of excellence is a continuous process through life. Enjoy the pursuit. Votes: 0

Elaine Chao

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Happiness is not in wealth or splendor, but in passion, perception, and pursuit. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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Find enjoyment and take pride in the intellectual pursuit of realizing your dreams. Votes: 0

Ken Poirot

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Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. Votes: 0

Preston Manning

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The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy. Votes: 0

Susanne Katherina Langer

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Hang on! God will be thy strength in any act of your pursuit. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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Art is certainly not a pursuit for anyone who wants to make money. Votes: 0

Robert Henri

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The crowning blessing of life-to be born with a bias to some pursuit. Votes: 0

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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Be grateful for what you have, while in pursuit of what you want. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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Nothing is so costly as the pursuit of a cure for imaginary ills. Votes: 0

Francois Fenelon

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Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit. Votes: 0

Rosanne Cash

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I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge. Votes: 0

Frederick Sanger

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The pursuit of your passion will spark the flame of a happy soul. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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The pursuit of greatness means that laziness has no place in your life. Votes: 0

Pat Conroy

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Let people be the pursuits of happiness, you be the pursuit of perfection. Votes: 0

Amit Kalantri

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Love is merely the name for the desire and pursuit of the whole. Votes: 0

Aristophanes

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any pursuit of happiness contrary to the common good is doomed to failure. Votes: 0

Alice Hegan Rice

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By peace our condition has been improved in the pursuit of civilized life. Votes: 0

John Ross

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Changing the world is not easy, but its pursuit will change you profoundly. Votes: 0

Leroy Hood

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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of absolute truth. Votes: 0

Samuel Butler

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I suppose the pursuit of fashion has always carried a price, monetary or otherwise. Votes: 0

Robert Charles Wilson

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The ugliness of the ideological lies in its legitimating the pursuit of the trivial. Votes: 0

John Carroll

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Most scientific revelations happened after the pursuit of knowledge quit being secret and hermetic. Votes: 0

John Perry Barlow

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Essentially pursuit of happiness is saying, everything's allowed until we come down on it. Votes: 0

Howard Rheingold

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...a disciplined pursuit of less will keep us focused and make the greatest impact. Votes: 0

Tim Hiller

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Greatness is not attainable, but in the pursuit of it, you can achieve excellence. Votes: 0

Vince Lombardi

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An Olympic pursuit really takes a full three to four years of Olympic preparation. Votes: 0

Apolo Ohno

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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There is no limit to how good you can get in pursuit of perfection. Votes: 0

Sachin Kumar Puli

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Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains. Votes: 0

Mata Amritanandamayi

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Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer. Votes: 0

John Keats

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A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. Votes: 0

Bo Bennett

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The three basic material rights -- continuity, mutual obligation, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

David Brin

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In the pursuit of knowledge, we know God, the source of knowledge and wisdom. Votes: 0

Lailah Gifty Akita

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A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim. Votes: 0

Richard Armitage

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In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start. Votes: 0

Friedrich Schiller

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Saying of the ProphetObligation to LearnThe pursuit of knowledge is obligatory on every Muslim. Votes: 0

Idries Shah

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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. Votes: 0

John Maynard Keynes

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Nature of course is the best guide in the matter of choosing a pursuit. Votes: 0

James Payn

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There's no point in spending your life in the pursuit of something that's easy. Votes: 0

Alice Kuipers

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Great eagerness in the pursuit of wealth, pleasure, or honor, cannot exist without sin. Votes: 0

Desiderius Erasmus

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The pursuit of things robs me of investing more in the work of Christ. Votes: 0

Jack Hyles

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[America] will stand steadfast with Israel in pursuit of security and a lasting peace. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession. Votes: 0

Elbert Hubbard

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Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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Happiness doesn't always come from a pursuit. Sometimes it comes when we least expect it. Votes: 0

Dalai Lama XIV

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It is the pursuit of happiness that brings us happiness, and not the happiness achieved. Votes: 0

Jack White

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Only when the pursuit ceases, is it possible to recognize what comprises you: pure being. Votes: 0

Adyashanti

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Learning dance steps was the sorry Saturday night pursuit of every boardinghouse girl in America. Votes: 0

Amor Towles

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To me, that's the key thing, the pursuit of happiness. That's the basic, ultimate freedom. Votes: 0

Jerry Garcia

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I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Joel Madden

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Brilliant, inspiring . . . if you are on a pursuit of self-mastery, make time to read this! Votes: 0

Jennifer Lacy

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The surest way of achieving your goal is through the single-minded pursuit of simple actions. Votes: 0

Helmuth von Moltke the Elder

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A complacent satisfaction with present knowledge is the chief bar to the pursuit of knowledge. Votes: 0

B. H. Liddell Hart

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The societal pursuit of high self-esteem for everyone may literally end up doing considerable harm. Votes: 0

Roy Baumeister

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A man's pursuit of knowledge is greater than his shortcomings, the limits of his vision. Votes: 0

Natasha Trethewey

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Science is not a heartless pursuit of objective information; it is a creative human activity. Votes: 0

Stephen Jay Gould

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Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete. Votes: 0

Plato

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When the pursuit of natural harmony is a shared journey, great heights can be attained. Votes: 0

Lynn Hill

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Our nation was founded on the principals of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Leonard Boswell

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action. Votes: 0

Marcus Tullius Cicero

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The shaming of Washington, insofar as it is even possible, is a very noble pursuit. Votes: 0

Mark Leibovich

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Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish. Votes: 0

Paul Schullery

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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit. Votes: 0

Andrew Sullivan

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The base of artistic pursuit is ambivalence and complexity. And that's what I try to do. Votes: 0

Fernando Perez

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It's better to die in pursuit of your dreams than to live a life without hope. Votes: 0

Terry Brooks

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Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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I will remain in relentless pursuit of continuing my lifelong dream of being an NFL quarterback. Votes: 0

Tim Tebow

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The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it. Votes: 0

Clarence Darrow

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Christianity does not begin with our pursuit of Christ, but with Christâs pursuit of us. Votes: 0

David Platt

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A consistent pursuit of classical physics forces a transformation in the very heart of that physics. Votes: 0

Werner Heisenberg

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Ambition is what gives birth to imagination and then imagination directs the bearing towards its pursuit. Votes: 0

Newton Gatambia

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Joy is realized as the natural by-product of the passionate pursuit of something other than happiness. Votes: 0

Marc Gafni

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As for me, I am in pursuit of excellence. I have no time to get old. Votes: 0

Will Eisner

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Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning. Votes: 0

Janet Hagberg

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There is nothing so terrible as the pursuit of art by those who have no talent. Votes: 0

W. Somerset Maugham

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There is something very unique in American iconography about this notion of the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

David Henry Hwang

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Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you. Votes: 0

Ernie J Zelinski

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Business is a spiritual pursuit. Your business will not grow unless you grow as a person Votes: 0

Tony Robbins

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I feel that the single-minded pursuit of wealth has led the middle classes into a crisis, Votes: 0

Rana Dasgupta

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The second you think you've arrived, someone passes you. You have to always be in pursuit. Votes: 0

Joe Torre

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I'm not in pursuit of happiness, I'm happiness in pursuit; ready to happen everywhere I go. Votes: 0

Bernard Kelvin Clive

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It's the pursuit of love and happiness that is the driving force of the romantic novel. Votes: 0

Susanna Kearsley

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Unless you're willing to fail miserably in the pursuit of your dreams, you'll never make it. Votes: 0

Hugh Jackman

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Most human behavior is nothing other than the avoidance of pain and the pursuit of pleasure. Votes: 0

Deepak Chopra

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I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

William Weld

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. Votes: 0

Carrie Snow

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There will be no war, but in the pursuit of principle no stone will be left standing. Votes: 0

John le Carre

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As far as Samson was concerned I was just another foreigner in pursuit of a lunatic quest. Votes: 0

Tahir Shah

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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it. Votes: 0

C.P. Snow

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Riches are always over estimated; the enjoyment they give is more in the pursuit than the possession. Votes: 0

Sarah Josepha Hale

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Leadership, pure and simple, is the assumption of responsibility for the pursuit of excellence in group life. Votes: 0

Philip Selznick

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We never grow closer to God when we just live life. It takes deliberate pursuit and attentiveness. Votes: 0

Francis Chan

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In your pursuit of your passions, always be young. In your relationship with others, always be grown-up. Votes: 0

Tom Brokaw

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You should at all times be showing a well-motivated character overcoming obstacles in pursuit of a goal. Votes: 0

James Frey

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The pursuit of happiness is an overview kind of thing. It's not in the Bill of Rights. Votes: 0

Jerry Garcia

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If George Washington crossing the Delaware matters, so must his ruthless pursuit of the runagate Oney Judge. Votes: 0

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch. Votes: 0

Raymond Sokolov

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How false is the conception, how frantic the pursuit, of that treacherous phantom which men call Liberty. Votes: 0

John Ruskin

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To save the mind from preying inwardly upon itself, it must be encouraged to some outward pursuit. Votes: 0

Fanny Burney

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The pursuit of happiness is in our Constitution. We're all entitled to have the best we can Votes: 0

Loretta Swit

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There are also times in life when a person has to rush off in pursuit of hopefulness. Votes: 0

Jean Giono

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Our goal in science is to discover universal laws of nature. That pursuit fills me with wonder. Votes: 0

Bill Nye

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Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained. Votes: 0

Agnes Meyer Driscoll

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Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply. Votes: 0

Patti Smith

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To sculpt a head of hair with scissors is an art form. It's in pursuit of art. Votes: 0

Vidal Sassoon

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Nothing else in nature behaves so consistently and rigidly as a human being in pursuit of hell. Votes: 0

Pete Townshend

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And in the fearless, reckless pursuit of intimate love, it is not the destination it's the journey. Votes: 0

Amanda Marshall

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The relentless pursuit of perfection has been my problem over the years. It's maybe held me back. Votes: 0

Ronnie O'Sullivan

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People will continue to seek justice until it is found, or until liberty is lost in the pursuit. Votes: 0

James Madison

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What if culture itself is nothing but a halt, a break, a respite, in the pursuit of barbarity? Votes: 0

Slavoj Å½iÅ¾ek

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Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness: this triptych succinctly defines the attractiveness and superiority of Western civilization. Votes: 0

Ibn Warraq

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The pursuit of excellence is less profitable than the pursuit of bigness, but it can be more satisfying. Votes: 0

David Ogilvy

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The emigrants although of different parties and different religious sects all flew from persecution in pursuit of liberty. Votes: 0

James Monroe

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If America is the pursuit of happiness, the best way to pursue happiness is to help other people. Votes: 0

George Lucas

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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible. Votes: 0

Ezra Taft Benson

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In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit. Votes: 0

C. Northcote Parkinson

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I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy Votes: 0

Parker J. Palmer

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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities. Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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You cannot deprive somebody of life, liberty, pursuit of happiness, because that is a right - constitutional right. Votes: 0

Gore Vidal

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The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens. Votes: 0

Miroslav Volf

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The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. Votes: 0

Norman Cousins

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It is the restrictions placed on vice by our social code which makes its pursuit so peculiarly agreeable. Votes: 0

Kenneth Grahame

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Life is to be enjoyed, not simply endured. Pleasure and goodness and joy support the pursuit of survival. Votes: 0

Willard Gaylin

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The pursuit of holiness must be anchored in the grace of God; otherwise it is doomed to failure Votes: 0

Jerry Bridges

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The pursuit of holiness is always on the path of obedience to the Word, never apart from it. Votes: 0

Steven J Lawson

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For me, the only sources of moral values are the pursuit of understanding and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Matthew Stewart

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If you devote yourself entirely to a pursuit, there is no way you cannot find beauty and fulfillment. Votes: 0

Daniel Gillies

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Although the universe is under no obligation to make sense, students in pursuit of a Ph. D. are. Votes: 0

Robert Kirshner

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Every science and every inquiry, and similarly every activity and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good. Votes: 0

Aristotle

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the compulsion to work long years in pursuit of some inner vision must be fueled by stubborn fires. Votes: 0

Silvia Tennenbaum

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Discipleship is the pursuit of holiness and happiness. It is the path to our best and happiest self. Votes: 0

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Great achievers are driven, not so much by the pursuit of success, but by the fear of failure. Votes: 0

Larry Ellison

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The English country gentleman galloping after the fox â the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals. Votes: 0

Frank Rich

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How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books! Votes: 0

Walter Benjamin

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Comfort kills ambition. Get uncomfortable and get used to it in your pursuit of your goals and dreams. Votes: 0

Robert Kiyosaki

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Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life. Votes: 0

Michael Chabon

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No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life. Votes: 0

Dillon Burroughs

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Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. Votes: 0

Ayn Rand

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Whatever pursuit you undertake, the requirements should start with a love of what it is that you are pursuing. Votes: 0

Bill Toomey

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Science is an organized pursuit of triviality.Art is a casual pursuit of significance.Let's keep it in perspective. Votes: 0

Vera Nazarian

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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer. Votes: 0

Charles Spurgeon

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The person who follows the pursuit of reason unflinchingly toward its end will be atheistic or, at best, agnostic. Votes: 0

William Lane Craig

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Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. Votes: 0

Henry David Thoreau

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The daring leader helps the people see a future state, greater than their own imagination, and worthy of pursuit. Votes: 0

Cheryl A. Bachelder

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Our goals should serve as markers, measurements of the progress we make in pursuit of something greater than ourselves. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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With all respect to Mr. Jefferson, I would put the pursuit of wisdom ahead of the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Edmund Fuller

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Character acting is a much braver pursuit than a guy who runs around and intermittently clenches his jaw muscles. Votes: 0

Ryan Reynolds

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The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. Votes: 0

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Success comes when we wake up every day in that never-ending pursuit of why we do what we do. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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Writing, at its heart, is a solitary pursuit, designed to make people depressoids, drug addicts, misanthropes, and antisocial weirdos. Votes: 0

Mindy Kaling

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In the pursuit of education, individual desire is more influential than institution, and personal faith more forceful than faculty. Votes: 0

Russell M. Nelson

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Real photography is a wonderfully inclusive, democratic medium, whereas art photography is more often a private pursuit by conmen. Votes: 0

Philip Jones Griffiths

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Success can be attained in any branch of labor. Thereâs always room at the top in every pursuit. Votes: 0

Andrew Carnegie

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The covetous map explores the whole world in pursuit of a subsistence, and fate is close at his heels. Votes: 0

Saadi

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Reflect, ere you spurn me, that youth at his sides Wears wings; and once gone, all pursuit he derides. Votes: 0

Theocritus

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Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people. Votes: 0

Jinato Hu

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Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure. Votes: 0

Marvin J. Ashton

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Generations of human beings were transformed into machines in the relentless pursuit of material wealth: We lived to work. Votes: 0

Jeremy Rifkin

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One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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While we shall never weary in the defense of freedom, neither shall we ever abandon the pursuit of peace. Votes: 0

John F. Kennedy

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I am deeply disturbed by the senseless violence instigated by some leaders in pursuit of their personal political agenda. Votes: 0

Mwai Kibaki

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Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people. Votes: 0

Hu Jintao

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Much as we don't condone impunity, if pursuit for justice was in conflict with pursuit for peace, peace must prevail. Votes: 0

Bernard Membe

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Always mystify, mislead and surprise the enemy; and when you strike and overcome him, never let up on the pursuit. Votes: 0

Stonewall Jackson

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The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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The U.S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. Your have to catch up with it yourself. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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Spiritual maturity is a lifelong pursuit. We grow in spiritual maturity moment by moment, day by day, year by year. Votes: 0

Jim George

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Those who attain any excellence commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often granted upon easier terms Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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Every managerial act must be seen as an unequivocal support for urgency in pursuit of constant testing, change, and improvement. Votes: 0

Tom Peters

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I hate how spiritual formation gets positioned as an optional pursuit for a small special interest group within the church. Votes: 0

John Ortberg

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Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment. Votes: 0

A. P. J. Abdul Kalam

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Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped. Votes: 0

Laozi

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It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. Votes: 0

John Charles Polanyi

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Stopping the endless pursuit of getting somewhere else is the perhaps most beautiful offering we can make to our spirit. Votes: 0

Tara Brach

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When there is trust, conflict becomes nothing but the pursuit of truth, an attempt to find the best possible answer. Votes: 0

Patrick Lencioni

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In pursuit of a more natural life, perhaps we ought to sit a little less and sweat a little more, Votes: 0

Ilchi Lee

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I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led. Votes: 0

Thomas Jefferson

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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. Votes: 0

Benjamin Cardozo

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People waste more time waiting for someone to take charge of their lives than they do in any other pursuit. Votes: 0

Gloria Steinem

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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness. Votes: 0

Benjamin N. Cardozo

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Get a life. A real life. Not a manic pursuit of the next promotion, the bigger paycheck, the larger house. Votes: 0

Anna Quindlen

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We all must die. There is no better way to do so than in the pursuit of something you love. Votes: 0

Jim Butcher

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It is an important thing, in our never-ending pursuit of happiness, to stop and just be happy for a while. Votes: 0

Mark Twain

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A line I like to use is, "Every day is training. Every day of life is a pursuit of perfection." Votes: 0

Jonathan Horton

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I make an idol of my moral consciousness. My pursuit of the good is corrupted by the sin of idolatry. Votes: 0

Susan Sontag

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Education must be a lifelong pursuit. The person who doesn't read is not better off than the person who can't. Votes: 0

Sean Covey

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There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. Votes: 0

William S. Burroughs

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Modern Americans travel light, with little philosophic baggage other than a fervent belief in their right to the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

George Will

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I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

John D. Rockefeller

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We pursue God because, and only because, He has first put an urge within us that spurs us to the pursuit. Votes: 0

Aiden Wilson Tozer

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It is not by delusion, however exalted, that mankind can prosper, but only by unswerving courage in the pursuit of truth. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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This wise man observed that wealth is a tool of freedom. But the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery. Votes: 0

Frank Herbert

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In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed. Votes: 0

John Rawls

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Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain. Votes: 0

Hermann von Helmholtz

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Pleasures that are in themselves innocent lose their power of pleasing if they become the sole or main object of pursuit. Votes: 0

William Edward Hartpole Lecky

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I'm suspicious of too much certainty in the pursuit of understanding just because I think people are limited in their understanding. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion. Votes: 0

Brian Swimme

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As creators, our pursuit of perfection might be misguided, particularly if it comes at the expense of the things that matter. Votes: 0

Seth Godin

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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Frank Norris

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What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child. Votes: 0

George Bernard Shaw

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Life in this world is short. Let us make use of our lives in the pursuit of happiness and not trouble. Votes: 0

Tunku Abdul Rahman

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All suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their own happiness or satisfaction Votes: 0

Dalai Lama

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More important than talent, strength, or knowledge is the ability to laugh at yourself and enjoy the pursuit of your dreams. Votes: 0

Amy Grant

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In their pursuit of the same supreme end, Matisse and Picasso stand side by side, Matisse representing color and Picasso form. Votes: 0

Wassily Kandinsky

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But I have been exposed, I am pursued - by myself! That is a pursuit that does not readily let go. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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The pursuit of excellence is gratifying and healthy. The pursuit of perfection is frustrating, neurotic, and a terrible waste of time. Votes: 0

Ed Bliss

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I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Lord Byron

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True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. Votes: 0

Dan Buettner

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We cannot spend our entire week in pursuit of the world and then wonder why our worship on Sunday feels flat. Votes: 0

Joel Balin

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The only urgent thing in life is the pursuit of love. You get that one right, and you've solved the mystery. Votes: 0

Adriana Trigiani

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Weigh risk carefully, and once you decide a risk is manageable and necessary in the pursuit of your dreams, take it. Votes: 0

Adrian Ballinger

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It is proved by surveys that happiness does not come from love, wealth, or power but the pursuit of attainable goals. Votes: 0

Helen Fielding

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Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want. Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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Don't marry so you can stop pursuing women. Marry so you can perfect the pursuit of ONE woman for a lifetime. Votes: 0

John Piper

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I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun. Votes: 0

Neal Stephenson

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Our happiest moments as tourists always seem to come when we stumble upon one thing while in pursuit of something else. Votes: 0

Lawrence Block

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There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit. Votes: 0

Dale Rex Coman

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The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter. Votes: 0

Walter J. Phillips

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The pursuit of knowledge is, I think, mainly actuated by love of power. And so are all advances in scientific technique. Votes: 0

Bertrand Russell

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Take risks in your life in the pursuit of your dreams, and support the ones you love when they take risks. Votes: 0

Adrian Ballinger

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A mature artist is at the same time aware of the futility of his achievement and the validity of the pursuit. Votes: 0

Jean Helion

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This is a fact: Strength in the pursuit of peace is no vice; isolation in the pursuit of security is no virtue. Votes: 0

George H. W. Bush

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If things don't come easy, there is no premium on effort. There should be joy in the chase, zest in the pursuit. Votes: 0

Branch Rickey

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It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment. Votes: 0

Mardy Grothe

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A scientist is as weak and human as any man, but the pursuit of science may ennoble him even against his will. Votes: 0

Isaac Asimov

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To read is to withdraw.To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less...selfish. Votes: 0

Alan Bennett

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As with the pursuit of happiness, the pursuit of truth is itself gratifying whereas the consummation often turns out to be elusive. Votes: 0

Richard Hofstadter

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Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition. Votes: 0

Jason Isaacs

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Philadelphia, the foundation of freedom, liberty and democracy, I still believe in the idea of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Michael Nutter

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Understanding one another means that objects, including sounds, have the same value for both with respect to carrying on a common pursuit. Votes: 0

John Dewey

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Success is not a pursuit...but the result of obedience to the Divien and Natural laws of Life established by the Creator Votes: 0

Myles Munroe

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Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit. Votes: 0

Marcel Proust

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...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances. Votes: 0

Rene Dubos

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This is a new phase in history where art, science, business and spirit will join together in the pursuit of true wealth. Votes: 0

James Altucher

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For many, many people, getting married is one of the most important things they will ever do in the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Marianne Williamson

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The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal. Votes: 0

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

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To guarantee the individual maximum freedom within a social frame of minimal laws ensures - if not happiness - its hopeful pursuit. Votes: 0

John Updike

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A strong pursuit, give no time for the enemy to think, take advantage of victory, uproot him, cut off his escape route. Votes: 0

Alexander Suvorov

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One of the few things in life that cannot possibly do harm in the end is the honest pursuit of the truth. Votes: 0

Peter Kreeft

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The pursuit of your life is to come into [your] purpose. And the waste of your life is to miss that purpose. Votes: 0

T. D. Jakes

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A breeze shook rain out of new leaves onto their hair, but in their pursuit of eternity they never noticed the chill. Votes: 0

Barbara Kingsolver

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What is science but the pursuit of the truth? What is Buddhism but 2500 years of observation as to the nature of mind? Votes: 0

Wade Davis

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Sometimes great injustices may be inflicted on the minority when the majority is in the pursuit of a great and just cause. Votes: 0

Paul Robeson

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Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue. Votes: 0

Lyndon B. Johnson

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Thomas Jefferson was a real poet. He was slick with that 'pursuit' of happiness because the 'pursuit' puts it back on you. Votes: 0

Will Smith

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A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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We were raised to pursue women... Most of the guys I know enjoy the pursuit. But that doesn't mean women should be wallflowers. Votes: 0

Greg Behrendt

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Believe me, you're going to have to do much worse than this--in the pursuit of freedom, the innocents will suffer--and at your hands. Votes: 0

Jasper Fforde

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Athletes who are able to stay completely focused in pursuit of their dreams are the ones that are most likely to become champions. Votes: 0

Steve Backley

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The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave. Votes: 0

Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

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The entire pursuit of value investing requires you to see where the crowd is wrong so that you can profit from their misperceptions. Votes: 0

Guy Spier

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I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Votes: 0

Victoria Woodhull

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The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets. Votes: 0

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now. Votes: 0

Bob Brown

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For every one step that you take in the pursuit of higher knowledge, take three steps in the perfection of your own character Votes: 0

Rudolf Steiner

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Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful. Votes: 0

Andre Leon Talley

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The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression. Votes: 0

William Vickrey

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We will be relentless in our pursuit for perfection. We won't ever be perfect - but in the process we will achieve greatness. Votes: 0

Vince Lombardi

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What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers? Votes: 0

Claude Monet

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One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it. Votes: 0

Donald Johanson

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No man pursues what he has at hand. No man recognizes the need of pursuit until that which he desires has escaped him. Votes: 0

Agnes Repplier

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The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail. Votes: 0

Tahir Shah

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Achievement happens when we pursue and attain what we want. Success comes when we are in clear pursuit of Why we want it. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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There is nothing in the world really beneficial that does not lie within the reach of an informed understanding and a well-protected pursuit. Votes: 0

Edmund Burke

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Many other cultures value poetry more than we do. In Ireland, poetry is a top cultural pursuit, the art to end all arts. Votes: 0

Campbell McGrath

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Wit is a weapon. Jokes are a masculine way of inflicting superiority. But humor is the pursuit of a gentle grin, usually in solitude. Votes: 0

Frank Muir

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Saints didn't set out to have everyone follow them. Saints set out to follow Jesus, and others followed them in their pursuit of Him. Votes: 0

Mark Hart

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Rescuing dogs is looked upon as a noble, trendy pursuit. But wouldn't rescuing a man from a homeless shelter be, in fact, more humane? Votes: 0

Greg Fitzsimmons

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They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? Votes: 0

Tony Judt

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Much of what has gone wrong in the pursuit of Arab-Israeli peace is due to a lack of strong leadership, primarily among the Palestinians. Votes: 0

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

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On the other hand, it is also undeniable that the Palestinian people - Muslims and Christians - have suffered in pursuit of a homeland. Votes: 0

Barack Obama

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Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise. Votes: 0

Tyrone Hayes

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Vegetarianism serves as the criterion by which we know that the pursuit of moral perfection on the part of humanity is genuine and sincere. Votes: 0

Leo Tolstoy

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Those in pursuit of Why are inspired to do what is right. Those in pursuit of What are driven to do what is easy. Votes: 0

Simon Sinek

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Calm for too long begs the question of whether we're in an all-out pursuit of life, or we're all-out of the pursuit of life. Votes: 0

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay. Votes: 0

Tony Hoare

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The pursuit of truth in science transcends national boundaries. It takes us beyond hatred and anger and fear. It is the best of us. Votes: 0

Arthur Eddington

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Be like a tree in pursuit of your cause. Stand firm, grip hard, thrust upward. Bend to the winds of heaven. And learn tranquility. Votes: 0

Richard St. Barbe Baker

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Those who would attain to any marked degree of excellence in a chosen pursuit must work, and work hard for it, prince or peasant. Votes: 0

Bayard Taylor

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Anyone in pursuit of art is responding to a desire to make visible that which is not, to offer the unknown self to others. Votes: 0

Hettie Jones

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You run the risk of falling on your face, but, again, music is an individual pursuit - it is made to please yourself first. Votes: 0

Mark Lanegan

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One of the surest roads to mediocrity, is to be overly concerned with pleasing others. It is, in the long run, a vain pursuit. Votes: 0

Terry Crouson

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There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee. Votes: 0

Francis Chan

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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. Votes: 0

Isaac D'Israeli

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The delight of opening a new pursuit, or a new course of reading, imparts the vivacity and novelty of youth even to old age. Votes: 0

Benjamin Disraeli

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My great mistake, the fault for which I canât forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality. Votes: 0

Oscar Wilde

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We have nothing to do, but to choose what is right, to be steady in the pursuit of it, and leave the issue to Providence. Votes: 0

Samuel Richardson

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It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing. Votes: 0

Eve Ensler

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I've grown to realize the joy that comes from little victories is preferable to the fun that comes from ease and the pursuit of pleasure. Votes: 0

Lawana Blackwell

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My reasons for declaring a sexual preference had to do less with the pursuit of personal freedom than with the lust for pure shock value. Votes: 0

Lance Loud

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Whether the aim is in heaven or on earth, wisdom or wealth, the essential condition of its pursuit and attainment is always security and order. Votes: 0

Johan Huizinga

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Be willing to go all out, in pursuit of your dream. Ultimately it will pay off. You are more powerful than you think you are. Votes: 0

Les Brown

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Most of us live our whole lives without having an adventure to call our own. What is any life without the pursuit of a dream? Votes: 0

Tilda Swinton

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Let us both small and great push forward in this work, in this pursuit, if to our country, if to ourselves we would live dear. Votes: 0

Horace

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I have never seen the Philosopher's Stone that turns lead into Gold, but I have known the pursuit of it turn a Man's Gold into Lead. Votes: 0

Benjamin Franklin

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I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules. Votes: 0

Malcolm Mclaren

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I can bow to fear and flee the pursuit of great things. I can bow to God and engage in the pursuit of making things great. Votes: 0

Craig D. Lounsbrough

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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it. Votes: 0

Josh Billings

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There is nothing that sharpens a man's senses so acutely as to know that bitter and determined enemies are in pursuit of him night and day. Votes: 0

Frederick Russell Burnham

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Aberrations of the human mind are to a large extent due to the obsessional pursuit of some part-truth, treated as if it were a whole truth. Votes: 0

Arthur Koestler

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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with. Votes: 0

Sammy Davis, Jr.

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It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit of life. Votes: 0

Samuel Smiles

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When others stood idly by, you and your families gave your all, in defence of a risen people and in pursuit of Irish freedom and unity. Votes: 0

Gerry Adams

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You see somewhere along the way, we've allowed the pursuit of fame and things to blind us to the issues that prevent us from moving upward. Votes: 0

T.I.

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America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered. Votes: 0

Jonah Goldberg

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I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Look what you can become in pursuit of what you want, and look out for what you become in the pursuit of what you want--don't compromise! Votes: 0

Jim Rohn

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There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work. Votes: 0

Jean de la Bruyere

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When we relax about imperfection, we no longer lose our life moments in the pursuit of being different and in the fear of what is wrong. Votes: 0

Tara Brach

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Do not ask that your kids live up to your expectations. Let your kids be who they are, and your expectations will be in breathless pursuit. Votes: 0

Robert Breault

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What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth. Votes: 0

Mahatma Gandhi

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Life is the most versatile thing under the sun; and in the pursuit of life and character the author who works in a groove works in blinkers. Votes: 0

Laurence Housman

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Weight every purpose in the light of eternity. A trivial pursuit is that which is out side the will of God & detached from the glory of God. Votes: 0

Paul Washer

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We have only to keep the end in view, and have our hearts thoroughly engaged in the pursuit of it, and means will not be very difficult. Votes: 0

William Carey

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If we are to be as a shining city upon a hill, it will be because of our ceaseless pursuit of the constitutional ideal of human dignity. Votes: 0

William J. Brennan

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Through the pursuit of beauty we shape the world as a home, and in doing so we both amplify our joys and find consolation for our sorrows. Votes: 0

Roger Scruton

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May each of my grandsons know, at an early age, what his life's ambition is -- and may he be successful in his pursuit of that goal. Votes: 0

Bette Davis

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You can't be attending to your dream only when you perfectly feel like doing so. Its pursuit has to become a big part of your daily life. Votes: 0

Edmond Mbiaka

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Your job is the relentless pursuit of who God made you to be. And anything else you do is sin and you need to repent of it. Votes: 0

Rob Bell

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I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life. Votes: 0

Thandie Newton

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I'm on the pursuit of happiness and I know, everything that shines ain't always gonna be gold. But I'll be fine once I get it, I'll be good. Votes: 0

Kid Cudi

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It is a device of mine never to grudge trouble in the pursuit of what seems to me really good and never to grudge payment for it afterwards. Votes: 0

Georgiana Burne-Jones

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That is the America which stands not in pursuit of an axis of evil, but which is itself at the axis of hope and faith and peace and freedom. Votes: 0

Dennis Kucinich

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In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too Votes: 0

Saul Bellow

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A winner is someone who can look in the mirror at the end of the day and say in pursuit of my goal and dreams I gave my best. Votes: 0

Dick Vitale

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I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

Edward Abbey

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Leadership is the art of serving God by helping His people become more like His Son through the indefatigable pursuit of His vision and values.

George Barna

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Success has a very narrow definition in professional athletics: medals and records, and pursuit of anything outside of that is looked down upon.

Lauren Fleshman

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I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

Ricky Gervais

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None of the projects or designs which exercise the mind of man are equally subject to obstructions and disappointments with the pursuit of fame.

Samuel Johnson

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It's been said racing encompasses hours of agony and moments of glory. But moments like the 1978 Triple Crown inspire the pursuit of greatness.

Steve Cauthen

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Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

Carl Sagan

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Religion is a set of social and political institutions and spirituality is a private pursuit which may or may not take place in a church setting.

D. Patrick Miller

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Making the absolute best of ourselves is not an easy task. It is a pleasurable pursuit...but it requires patience, persistence, and perseverance.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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I cannot imagine a sorrier pursuit than struggling for years to write a book that attempts to appeal to people who do not read in the first place.

Annie Dillard

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An eager pursuit of fortune is inconsistent with a severe devotion to truth. The heart must grow tranquil before the thought can become searching.

Christian Nestell Bovee

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I've turned it into the constant pursuit of natural and healthy living, which is much more than just exercise and how you eat. It's a way of life.

Princess Tatiana of Greece and Denmark

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A phenomenon noticeable throughout history regardless of place or period is the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests.

Barbara Tuchman

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Truly visionary and successful companies have discovered that there is no conflict between the pursuit of profit and having a pursuit beyond profit.

David Maister

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Our predicament is not the difficulty of attaining happiness, but the difficult of avoiding the misery to which the pursuit of happiness exposes us.

Michael Joseph Oakeshott

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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.

Vita Sackville-West

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Kant considers belief in God and immortality to be items of "faith" because he relates faith to the pursuit of ends - in this case, the highest good.

Allen W. Wood

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It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

Daniel Wallace

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Social confusion has now reached a point at which the pursuit of immorality turns out to be more exhausting than compliance with the old moral codes.

Denis de Rougemont

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I would say one of the reasons that women don't invest to the same extent that men do, is because we still think of it in some ways as a male pursuit.

Sallie Krawcheck

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The blind pursuit of learning leads to excessive desiresâthe more you see, the more you want. Excessive desires, in turn, lead to anxiety and misery.

Derek Lin

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Yet, every time God's children have thrown away fear in pursuit of honesty-trying to communicate themselves, understood or not, miracles have happened.

Duke Ellington

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Both the poet and scholar are trying to learn something. The poem for me is a pursuit. Some of the answers are within. Some of the answers are without.

Gregory Pardlo

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Nor yet be overeager in pursuit of any thing; for the mercurial too often happen to leave judgment behind them, and sometimes make work for repentance.

William Penn

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For me, the reading of the scriptures is not the pursuit of scholarship. Rather, it is a love affair with the word of the Lord and that of His prophets.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

Jack Kirby

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I've always said I didn't have a Plan B in life. I was in pursuit of my dream from the very beginning. It's all about desire and passion. At all costs.

Mario Andretti

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Winning Forever is not about the final score; it's about competing and striving to be the best. If you are in this pursuit, then you're already winning.

Pete Carroll

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Buddhism is all about science. If science is the systematic pursuit of the accurate knowledge of reality, then science is Buddhism, Buddhism is science.

Robert Thurman

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Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

William J. Clinton

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You wear yourself out in the pursuit of wealth or love or freedom, you do everything to gain some right, and once it's gained you take no pleasure in it.

Oriana Fallaci

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Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure.

Carroll Quigley

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The road to hell is paved with the pursuit of volume. Volume leads to marginal products, marginal customers, and greatly increased managerial complexity.

Richard Koch

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The pursuit of exotic beauty in such a life would have been like having a ball of tinfoil in your stomach, all that airy metal filling you up with hunger.

Laura Kasischke

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If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and be in the pursuit of happiness

Mariah Carey

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Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives

Anna Quindlen

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So long as mankind shall continue to lavish more praise upon its destroyers than upon its benefactors war shall remain the chief pursuit of ambitious minds.

Edward Gibbon

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If technology does not liberate all people for the pursuit of higher aspirations in human achievement, then all its technical potential will be meaningless.

Jacque Fresco

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We need to explore the relationship between means and ends. Purposes grow out of situations. One may find the pursuit first and then this brings the purpose.

David Hawkins

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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

Harriet Martineau

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Let danger never turn you aside from the pursuit of honor or the service to your country ... Know that death is inevitable and the fame of virtue is immortal

Robert E. Lee

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Find that pursuit that will energize you, consume you, become an obsession. Each day, you must rise with a restless enthusiasm. If you don't, you are working.

Adrian Tan

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The whole idea of the pursuit of goods and possessions has completely corrupted the human experience, along with religion, which I think limits the intellect.

George Carlin

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I long to be known as an extravagant worshiper...that God would discover the song in my heart to be elaborate, overgenerous, and wasteful in my pursuit of Him.

Darlene Zschech

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Let every Christian, as much as in him lies, engage himself openly and publicly, before all the World, in some mental pursuit for the Building up of Jerusalem.

William Blake

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What if loving something means you should mostly feel frustrated and thwarted? And then a little ruined, too, by the pursuit? But you keep coming back for more?

Chang-Rae Lee

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There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

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Someone told me there was a publisher that could find a good home for my songs, but I didn't want to give up my pursuit of a career in the business as an artist

Michael Bolton

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When I see the elaborate study and ingenuity displayed by women in the pursuit of trifles, I feel no doubt of their capacity for the most herculean undertakings.

Julia Ward Howe

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Life balance is a myth. It's an illusion and the very pursuit of it is driving us crazy. For me it's about proportion - it's really a work hard/play hard equation.

Danielle LaPorte

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In any field, the Establishment is seldom in pursuit of the truth, because it is composed of those who sincerely believe that they are already in possession of it.

Edwin Thompson Jaynes

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Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

Zhuangzi

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Writing is a solitary pursuit and I think you have to be partially at peace with yourself, but it's the other part that's usually producing the stuff worth reading.

Craig Johnson

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...No opening sermons concerning children with humps and fins for limbs, who nonetheless, immortal souls all, deserve life, liberty, and the pursuit of Happy Meals.

Gregory Maguire

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Whatever your life's pursuit -- art, poetry, sculpture, music, whatever your occupation may be -- you can be as spiritual as clergy, always living a life of praise.

Hazrat Inayat Khan

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The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

Herbert Spencer

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In the pursuit of truth, intent is prior to content, or to the availability of it. The love of truth and the willingness to submit to its demands is the first step.

Ravi Zacharias

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Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit of dangerous desires.

Wes Fesler

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The promise of pleasures so alluring that we may devote our lives to their pursuit, and then the haunting realization that these pleasures ultimately do not satisfy.

Philip Yancey

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Leaving home' to me means adopting the attitude that the pursuit of the truth is more vital than the pursuit of what society â your home â tells you is important.

Brad Warner

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Schedule in rest in any pursuit. Thereâs always another peak, but look back and admire the view for a moment. You have to actually practice that - itâs a balance.

Christy Haubegger

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By looking into physical causes our minds are opened and enlarged; and in this pursuit, whether we take or whether we lose the game, the chase is certainly of service.

Edmund Burke

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Almost all photographers have incurred large expenses in the pursuit of tiny audiences, finding that the wonder they'd hoped to share is something few want to receive.

Robert Adams

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We're told about a woman's right to control her own body. But doesn't the unborn child have a higher right, and that is to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?

Ronald Reagan

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Man's pursuit of physical desires and earthly possessions is an indication of his lack of conviction that the purpose of his existence is the attainment of spirituality.

Abraham J. Twerski

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The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.

Bernie Glassman

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It is remarkable that there are few men so well employed, so much to their minds, but that a little money or fame would commonly buy them off from their present pursuit.

Henry David Thoreau

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When the mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space...it pursues emptiness; but when man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence.

Meher Baba

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Read the Declaration of Independence to your children as a tradition every Fourth of July. Make sure they understand why the word "pursuit" precedes the word "happiness."

Jeff Bezos

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I find that I can have no enjoyment in the world but the continual drinking of knowledge. I find there is no worthy pursuit but the idea of doing some good for the world.

John Keats

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I want to know a butcher paints, A baker rhymes for his pursuit, Candlestick-maker much acquaints His soul with song, or, haply mute, Blows out his brains upon the flute.

Robert Browning

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I wasn't in the drama department, but I auditioned anyway and he not only cast me but also included a few sketches that I wrote, which really sparked my pursuit of comedy.

Ted Alexandro

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What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

Roy Baumeister

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The pursuit of peace resembles the building of a great cathedral. It is the work of a generation. In concept it requires a mater-architect; in execution, the labors of many.

Hubert H. Humphrey

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Culture being a pursuit of our total perfection by means of getting to know, on all the matters which most concern us, the best which has been thought and said in the world.

Matthew Arnold

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The heart of human excellence often begins to beat when you discover a pursuit that absorbs you, frees you, challenges you, or gives you a sense of meaning, joy, or passion.

Terry Orlick

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I do not find fault with equality for drawing men into the pursuit of forbidden pleasures, but for absorbing them entirely in the search for the pleasures that are permitted.

Alexis de Tocqueville

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All successful individuals have become such by hard work; by improving moments before they pass into hours, and hours that other people may occupy in the pursuit of pleasure.

Mary Baker Eddy

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In other studies you go as far as other have gone before you, and there is nothing more to know; but in a scientific pursuit there is continual food for discovery and wonder.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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Every student who enters upon a scientific pursuit, especially if at a somewhat advanced period of life, will find not only that he has much to learn, but much also to unlearn.

John Herschel

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Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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We were like confirmed opium-eaters: in our moments of reason we well knew the deadly nature of our pursuit, but we certainly were not prepared to abandon its terrible delights.

H. Rider Haggard

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It is imperative that the Christian, at the beginning of his pursuit to understand what true worship is, gets it clear that the object of our worship is to be God and God alone.

R. C. Sproul

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The pursuit of truth is just a polite name for the intellectual's favorite pastime of substituting simple and therefore false abstractions for the living complexities of reality.

Aldous Huxley

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This search for happiness can knock us out of sync with God. As the life of Jesus makes clear, keeping in sync with God is about obedience. Any other pursuit will get in the way.

Franklin Graham

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Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

Gerald Caiafa

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The process of healing also needs to include the pursuit of truth, not for the sake of opening old wounds, but rather as a necessary means of promoting justice, healing and unity.

Pope Francis

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Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The pursuit by the Iranian regime of nuclear weapons represents a direct threat to the entire international community, including to the United States and to the Persian Gulf region.

Condoleezza Rice

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Spiritual growth-looking inward-is replacing the pursuit of external power-reaching outward to manipulate and control-as the cure for the insecurity at the core of human experience.

Gary Zukav

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There is a policy in manner. I have heard one, not inexperienced in the pursuit of fame, give it his earnest support, as being the surest passport to absolute and brilliant success.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

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We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

Joan D. Chittister

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The love of money is the source of an enormous amount of good; the fact that the good is a by-product of the selfish pursuit of riches has nothing to do with its indisputable value.

Leo Rosten

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When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

Yoshio Taniguchi

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If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.

Ashton Eaton

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It was humanly impossible for the disciples to free themselves from their selfish pursuit of self-exaltation, just as it's impossible for us to free ourselves from the very same sins.

C. J. Mahaney

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...the majority of people cannot endure the bareness and futility of their lives unless they have some ardent dedication, or some passionate pursuit in which they can lose themselves.

Eric Hoffer

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I speak of peace, therefore, as the necessary rational end of rational men. I realize the pursuit of peace is not as dramatic as the pursuit of war... But we have no more urgent task.

John F. Kennedy

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Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is the most perpetual people of the earth...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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Writing a funny story is one thing. But writing a funny story that inspires others to venture beyond their level of comfort in pursuit of their greater good is what makes me come alive.

Romany Malco

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Most of the artists I know are crazy in one way or another. I think that's why you get into it. You're in pursuit of a certain sort of peace that's very, very, very difficult to come by.

Bruce Springsteen

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People jump back and forth in pursuit of pleasures only because they see the emptiness of their lives more clearly than they do the emptiness of whichever new entertainment attracts them

Leo Tolstoy

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A new chapter in the history of international politics has begun, one in which the pursuit and control of energy resources would be the central dynamic of world affairs, and governments.

Michael Klare

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How could sufferings be relieved through purification? To know the Path is to get lost at the ford. Indeed, sickness comes from worldly love And poverty begins with the pursuit of greed.

Wang Wei

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It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

Ben Bradlee

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Love is not about chasing someone; it's not about being chased or being the one chasing. It's about chasing after dreams and if in that pursuit someone runs parallel to you, that is love.

Carlos Salinas

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Why communitarian socialism? Now not only do we have the pursuit of happiness for man, as a government, as a program or as our principles. But as well to live in harmony with Mother Earth.

Evo Morales

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Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

Paul Schullery

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I guess a witness is all I am. I think as a writer, you're pretty removed. Writing is a very selfish, individualistic pursuit. So in that sense I'm a witness because I'm not participating.

Sherman Alexie

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I think the pursuit of trying to understand things is really a critical issue. I see the issue of life and death in everything I do. I'm trying to find answers. It can be quite frustrating.

Robert Longo

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The wind is rushing after us, and the clouds are flying after us, and the moon is plunging after us, and the whole wild night is in pursuit of us; but, so far we are pursued by nothing else.

Charles Dickens

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I know of no system other than Hinduism under which a class has been set apart from generation to generation for the exclusive pursuit of divine knowledge and consigned to voluntary poverty.

Mahatma Gandhi

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The pursuit of health is a symptom of unhealth. When this pursuit is no longer a personal yearning but part of state ideology, healthism for short, it becomes a symptom of political sickness.

Petr Skrabanek

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I'd been blindsided with the most painful knowledge: the first man to ever say he loved me had never loved me at all. His passion had been artificial. His pursuit of me had been choreographed.

Charlaine Harris

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Man will not always stay on Earth; the pursuit of light and space will lead him to penetrate the bounds of the atmosphere, timidly at first, but in the end to conquer the whole of solar space.

Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

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An indispensable hypothesis, even though still far from being a guarantee of success, is however the pursuit of a specific aim, whose lighted beacon, even by initial failures, is not betrayed.

Max Planck

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Beauty, which I admit to being in pursuit of, is an extremely suspect word among many in the art world. But I don't think you can get along without it. It's the confirmation of meaning in life.

Robert Adams

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In the first place, any group of folks willing to make asses of themselves in pursuit of a good time should be commended and encouraged: The spirit of human frolic needs all the help it can get.

Molly Ivins

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Happiness is an elusive state of mind not to be gained by clumsy pursuit.It is given to those who do not sue for it:to be unconcerned about a desired good is probably the only way to possess it.

Ruskin Bond

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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

Anne Sweeney

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Confronted by too much emptiness ... the brain invents. Loneliness creates company as thirst creates water. How many sailors have been wrecked in pursuit of islands that were merely a shimmering?

Margaret Atwood

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When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly helping to promote the pursuit of happiness by our fellow human beings.

Aristotle

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The happiest people I know are not those who find their golden ticket; they are those who, while in pursuit of worthy goals, discover and treasure the beauty and sweetness of the everyday moments.

Dieter F. Uchtdorf

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Giving peace a chance only gives Saddam Hussein more time to prepare for war on his terms, at a time of his choosing, in pursuit of ambitions that will only grow as his power to achieve them grows.

John McCain

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Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with its difficulties and a pursuit of its felicities and beauty.

Ralph Ellison

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It's impossible to just come up with one thing that I could say to the world. That's why I've spent my life in the pursuit of the opportunity to sing to it. Summing it up goes against what fuels me.

Brandi Carlile

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This is the even-handed dealing of the world!" he said. "There is noth-ing on which it is so hard as poverty; and there is nothing it professes tocondemn with such severity as the pursuit of wealth!

Charles Dickens

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The right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness means that each of us is free to go our own way, even if the ways some of us may choose to go seem sinful or shocking to our fellow citizens.

Dan Savage

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There is more respect to be won in the opinion of this world by a resolute and courageous liquidation of unsound positions than by the most stubborn pursuit of extravagant or unpromising objectives.

George F. Kennan

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True purity, however, is a direction, a persistent, determined pursuit of righteousness. This direction starts in the heart, and we express it in a lifestyle that flees opportunities for compromise.

Joshua Harris

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Civilization depends upon the vigorous pursuit of the highest values by people who are intelligent enough to know that their values are qualified by their interests and corrupted by their prejudices.

Reinhold Niebuhr

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'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.

Evgeny Morozov

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That cotton trade was almost the deal breaker for me. It was at that point that I said, âMr. Stupid, why risk everything on one trade? Why not make your life a pursuit of happiness rather than pain?

Paul Tudor Jones

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Love is like a hunter, who cares not for the game when once caught, which he may have pursued with the most intense and breathless eagerness. Love is strongest in pursuit; friendship in possession....

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.

Terry Eagleton

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As you progress towards enlightenment you will find that you become a winner at anything, not because you are so concerned about winning anymore. You are just concerned about the pursuit of excellence.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman's cares.

George Washington

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I've spent a lot of time in my life dedicating myself to love or the pursuit of love or the understanding of love. And now I've stopped believing in happy endings and I've started believing in good days.

Drew Barrymore

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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

Nick Hornby

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William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

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I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and playing music since childhood. It's what I enjoyed most.

Dermot Mulroney

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Universities have failed in their function of the pursuit of academic excellence by having dumbed down classes and granting degrees to students who are just barely literate and computationally incompetent.

Walter E. Williams

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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

J. Robert Oppenheimer

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Success treads on the heels of every right effort; and though it is possible to overestimate success to the extent of almost deifying it, as is sometimes done, still in any worthy pursuit it is meritorious.

Samuel Smiles

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I am deeply convince that the necessity of prayer, and to pray unceasingly, is not as much based on our desire for God as on God's desire for us. It is God's passionate pursuit of us that calls us to prayer.

Henri Nouwen

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Here's what I believe is sexy at work: being strong and committed and confident, being precisely who you are and in hot pursuit of the goals and ideas you believe in so much they captivate and inspire others.

Charlotte Beers

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The coalition did not act in Iraq because we had discovered dramatic new evidence of Iraq's pursuit. We acted because we saw the evidence in a dramatic new light - through the prism of our experience on 9/11.

Donald Rumsfeld

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The risks involved in the pursuit of magic are--put simply--either getting frightened by unpleasant perceptions or becoming deluded. Unfortunately it is possible to suffer from both symptoms at the same time.

Philip Carr-Gomm

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Much serious thought has been devoted to the subject of chocolate: What does chocolate mean? Is the pursuit of chocolate a right or a privilege? Does the notion of chocolate preclude the concept of free will?

Sandra Boynton

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Mr. Obama at the UN said that the large nations should not trample small ones in pursuit of what he called "territorial ambition". These are curious statements coming from the American president at this time.

Vijay Prashad

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Man can have strength of character only as he is capable of controlling his faculties; of choosing a rational end; and, in its pursuit, of holding fast to his integrity against al! the might of external nature.

Mark Hopkins

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You know what made us the biggest, meanest, Big Mac eating, calorie-counting, world-dominating kick-ass powerhouse country in the history of the human race? The pursuit of happiness. Not happiness. The pursuit.

Will Ferguson

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There is a certain hidden mediocrity in those who are stationed above us in life, an ability to take liberties in their pursuit of pleasures and diversions, without injuring the honor and respect we owe to them.

Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de ...

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If you are not discouraged about your writing on a regular basis, you may not be trying hard enough. Any challenging pursuit will encounter frequent patches of frustration. Writing is nothing if not challenging.

Maxwell Perkins

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Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever newborn; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

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The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with.

J. Irwin Miller

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Minimalism is not a style, it is an attitude, a way of being. Itâs a fundamental reaction against noise, visual noise, disorder, vulgarity. Minimalism is the pursuit of the essence of things, not the appearance.

Claudio Silvestrin

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I didn't know the odds were so stacked against me. I went for TV shows and never got them. But I kept glued to the pursuit. I was the biggest fool in town, but ultimately I was the biggest fool in town with a job.

Julia Roberts

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In fact people do not know enough about themselves and what is good for them to form a sufficiently definite conception of the general happiness (or whatever the end is) to establish definite rules for its pursuit.

Allen W. Wood

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The only relevant side is that of the law and the Constitution. We do great injury to the integrity of the court system when we start speaking of sides and stop devoting ourselves to the pursuit of impartial justice.

Jon Kyl

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The great Error of our Nature is, not to know where to stop, not to be satisfied with any reasonable Acquirement; not to compound with our Condition; but to lose all we have gained by an insatiable Pursuit after more.

Edmund Burke

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On working with his father in Pursuit of Happyness: It was fun having that experience with my dad 'cause he really taught me a lot of the stuff that he knows. Almost everything he knows about acting in that one movie.

Jaden Smith

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The Constitution of America only guarantees pursuit of happiness-you have to catch up with it yourself. Fortunately, happiness is something that depends not on position but on disposition, and life is what you make it.

Gill Robb Wilson

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The rub is that the pursuit of happiness, as an end in itself, tends automatically, and widely, to be replaced by the pursuit of pleasure with a consequent general softening of the fibers of will, intelligence, spirit.

Whittaker Chambers

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All equally see in the convulsion in America an era in the history of the world, out of which must come in the end a general recognition of the right of mankind to the produce of their labor and the pursuit of happiness.

Charles Francis Adams, Sr.

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Nothing's going to stop you or deter you or cause you to give up. Pursuit, because nobody actually expects it to happen. They want you to be continuous in your efforts. And perfection because there's just nothing better.

Frank Luntz

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Being a Catholic, I was drawn to the mystery of the Latin and the smoke and the mirrors and all of that. That part of my disposition definitely did lend itself to finding my way to the back door of some artistic pursuit.

Susan Sarandon

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The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

Alan Watts

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I used to be so convinced that happiness was the goal, yet all those years I was chasing after it I was unhappy in the pursuit. Maybe the goal really should be a life that values honor, duty, good work, friends and family.

Robert Downey, Jr.

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The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth. It must be war without quarter, pursuit without rest, victory without qualification

Tom DeLay

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Education is not merely a means for earning a living or an instrument for the acquisition of wealth. It is an initiation into life of spirit, a training of the human soul in the pursuit of truth and the practice of virtue.

Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit

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Finding your purpose may be a lifelong pursuit or you may have discovered it when you were 5 years old. There's no absolute timeline for anyone. That's a good reason never to give up, to keep on discovering things every day.

Donald Trump

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I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

Gordon B. Hinckley

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If it is true that love is the pursuit in another of qualities we lack in ourselves, then in our love of someone from another culture, one ambition may be to weld ourselves more closely to values missing from our own culture.

Alain de Botton

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That word again. Happy. Itâs a curse. The pursuit of happiness makes us deeply unhappy. Itâs a trap.Before anything else happened, there was me in bed, thinking of who you used to be. I donât want you to think I forgot.

David Levithan

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For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no ready answer, then set for yourself goals, high and noble goals, and perish in pursuit of them!

Friedrich Nietzsche

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We could not take one step in the pursuit of holiness if God in His grace had not first delivered us from the dominion of sin and brought us into union with His risen Son. Salvation is by grace and sanctification is by grace.

Jerry Bridges

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When I perform I always opt for communication with God and in pursuit of communicating with God you can fall into some very dangerous territory. I have also come to realize that total communication with God is physical death.

Patti Smith

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I made the flames lick the surface of the painting in such a way that is recorded the spontaneous traces of the fire. But what is it that provokes in me this pursuit of the impression of fire? Why must I search for its traces?

Yves Klein

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My investigations resembled the pursuit of the solution to a problem for which I had three data: the object, the thing connected with it in the shadow of my consciousness, and the light wherein that thing would become apparent.

Rene Magritte

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Conservatism is an active intellectual pursuit; it requires a constant vigilance. It has nothing to do with feelings. Liberalism is the most gutless choice you can make. You just see suffering and say, 'Oh, I feel so horrible!'

Rush Limbaugh

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The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.

William H. Gray III

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The Western societies which espouse free market capitalism survive by the pursuit of greed and, in their own way, like Communism, throw into leadership men and women (mostly men) who know how to gain, exert and manipulate power.

Davis McCaughey

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He to whom many objects of pursuit arise at the same time, will frequently hesitate between different desires till a rival has precluded him, or change his course as new attractions prevail, and harass himself without advancing.

Samuel Johnson

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And, more importantly, reach for the stars. And realize that it is never too late â not now, not ever â for you to pursue your passion, your pursuit of perfection. And most importantly, your perseverance for making it happen.

Debbi Fields

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Different men have different names, which they owe to their parents or to themselves, that is, to their own pursuits and achievements. But our great pursuit, the great name we wanted, was to be Christians, to be called Christians.

Gregory of Nazianzus

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Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

Leo Strauss

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Ultimately, the question, "does it really matter?" is a question of humanity. If you're into the pursuit of fidelity, it's a really interesting question. Personally, I don't think digital sounds good, but that's just my own feeling.

John Vanderslice

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You don't expect everyone out there watching to believe that this cartoon is real, that this drawing has really come to life. But on some level, you do. You try to cast a spell. You want the world to feel real. It's a nerdy pursuit.

Loren Bouchard

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I always believed that my platform would be speaking to young women that were teenagers that had had their babies and were trying to make it as single moms and still have hope and passions and pursuit of great things in their lives.

Shari Wiedmann

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The pursuit of art is a delicate balance between influence and self-assertiveness. As self-realized artists, we all have different levels of tolerance for this mystery. Influence is like Scotch; it's good to know your personal limit.

Robert Genn

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I decline the election. It has ever been my rule through life, to observe a proportion between my efforts and my objects. I have never been remarkable for a bold, active, and sanguine pursuit of advantages that are personal to myself.

Edmund Burke

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This country was founded upon the principle that we are all endowed with certain inalienable rights to Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness - those rights are what make America great, and they belong to each and every one of us.

Charles Rangel

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Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

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The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word "quest," suggesting that within every question is an adventure, a pursuit which can lead us to hidden treasure.

Tom Wujec

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Persons who reach the higher rungs in business management, selling, engineering, religious work, writing, acting, and in every other pursuit get there by following conscientiously and continuously a plan for self-development and growth.

David J. Schwartz

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My father died shortly after I was twenty-one; and being left well off, and having a taste for travel and adventure, I resigned, for a time, all pursuit of the almighty dollar, and became a desultory wanderer over the face of the earth.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.

Elizabeth Hardwick

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We imagine a school in which students and teachers excitedly and joyfully stretch themselves to their limits in pursuit of projects built on their vision...not one that succeeds in making apathetic students satisfying minimal standards.

Seymour Papert

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These theories, deontology, the moral rights theory, and utilitarianism, contradict one another. Moreover, they give conflicting (inconsistent) recommendations. It is hence not possible to hold them together, in a pursuit of moral truth.

Torbjorn Tannsjo

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The pleasantest part of a man's life is generally that which passes in courtship, provided his passion be sincere, and the party beloved kind with discretion. Love, desire, hope, all the pleasing emotions of the soul, rise in the pursuit.

Joseph Addison

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Hasn't it ever occurred to you that in your promiscuous pursuit of women you are merely trying to assuage your subconscious fears of sexual impotence?" "Yes, sir, it has." "Then why do you do it?" "To assuage my fears of sexual impotence.

Joseph Heller

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I'm obsessed with textures. We're surrounded by so much vinyl that I find myself constantly in pursuit of other textures. One time I removed all the hair from a mouse with Nair-Hair just to see what it looked like. And it looked beautiful.

David

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Since human good is what humans ought to pursue, the pursuit of interest to Aristotle is then such activity of soul, that which constitutes human good, namely activity that attains desiderata, where the attainment is in accord with virtue.

Ernest Sosa

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Everybody Moral courage is a virtue of higher cast and nobler origin than physical. It springs from a consciousness of virtue and renders a man, in the pursuit or defense of right, superior to the fear of reproach, opposition, or contempt.

Samuel Griswold Goodrich

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Our unalienable right to life and liberty and the pursuit of happiness, those rights were stripped from college kids in Blackburg and Santa Barbara, and from high schoolers at Columbine. And, and from first graders in Newtown, first graders.

Barack Obama

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I loved the excitement and the pleasures of life in New York, the opportunities for advancement, the pursuit of ambition, the theaters, the places of amusement, and such nights as the last I spent with you just as I was leaving for the West.

Cass Gilbert

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The Lord's visitations of distinguished favor are always to the diligent. That great men may not be ashamed of honest vocations, the greatest that have ever lived have been contented, happy, and honored while in the pursuit of humble trades.

Elias Lyman Magoon

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Sisterhood is powerful. Woman can support each other as women, in their pursuit for enlightenment or anything else, without fear. But as long as she's still in the commodities exchange market, buying and selling, she must fear the competition.

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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For the majority of contemporary Americans, the essence of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness centers on a relentless personal quest to acquire, consume, to indulge, and to shed whatever constraints might interfere with those endeavors.

Andrew Bacevich

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When the founders wrote about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, they didn't mean longer vacations and more comfortable hammocks. They meant the pursuit of learning. The pursuit of improvement and excellence. In hard work is happiness.

David McCullough

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Well, my dear," said Mr. Bennet, when Elizabeth had read the note aloud, "if your daughter should have a dangerous fit of illness"if she should die, it would be a comfort to know that it was all in pursuit of Mr. Bingley, and under your orders.

Jane Austen

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The word philosophy simply means a pursuit of wisdom, the purpose of life, and a search for Truth. However, this quest, because it originates with man, can never find the answers. In fact, man cannot reach God or know God by intellectual pursuit.

Jimmy Swaggart

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Religions have become a hindrance, rather than a help, to our shared pursuit of peace and progress. They tend to make us meaner rather than better human beings, less sensitive to the demands of justice, compassion and fellow humanity in our times.

Agnivesh

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Radical Islamists are serious about killing in pursuit of their extreme objectives. Releasing their soldiers can only embolden them to take more Americans hostage. The deal for Sgt. Bergdahl may well turn out to have been a bargain with the devil.

Cal Thomas

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Imagination is a God-given gift; but if it is fed dirt by the eye, it will be dirty. All sin, not least sexual sin, begins with the imagination. Therefore what feeds the imagination is of maximum importance in the pursuit of kingdom righteousness.

D. A. Carson

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I think we got off the track, as many societies do, who follow successfully one aim, and yet are not capable of seeing at what point the pursuit of this aim prevents them from following a more total aim. That is to say, they get into a blind alley.

Erich Fromm

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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going down an inclined plane - putting on the brake is not pleasant, but it keeps the car on the track and from ruin.

Henry Ward Beecher

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Proclaim a theology of divine righteousness which demands justice, respect, tolerance, compassion, inclusiveness, trust in the ultimate efficacy of divine zeal, and the rigorous pursuit of peace in the midst of competing interests and faith claims.

James A. Forbes

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It is not the function of the State to make men happy. They must make themselves happy in their own way, and at their own risk. The functions of the State lie entirely in the conditions or chances under which the pursuit of happiness is carried on.

William Graham Sumner

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There are different levels of scripting that we all use; I think I'm the most improvised of the three, and probably Andrew's the most written. But all of that is in pursuit of similar things, and I think that we kind of recognize that in each other.

Joe Swanberg

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No man, perhaps, is so wicked as to commit evil for its own sake. Evil is generally committed under the hope of some advantage the pursuit of virtue seldom obtains. Yet the most successful result of the most virtuous heroism is never without its alloy.

Benjamin Haydon

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Fortunately for those who pay their court through such foibles, a fond mother, though, in pursuit of praise for her children, themost rapacious of human beings, is likewise the most credulous; her demands are exorbitant; but she will swallow any thing.

Jane Austen

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A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.

Sai Baba

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Our world is increasingly interdependent, but I wonder if we truly understand that our interdependent human community has to be compassionate; compassionate in our choice of goals, compassionate in our means of cooperation and our pursuit of these goals.

Dalai Lama

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The free society does not guarantee virtue, any more than it guarantees happiness. But it allows for the pursuit of both, a pursuit rendered all the more meaningful and profound because success is not guaranteed, it has to be won through personal striving.

Dinesh D'Souza

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I've become obsessed with the idea of reconciliation, particularly reconciliation with nature but with people too, of course. I think that travel has been a kind of search for that, a pursuit for unity and even an attempt to contribute to a sense of unity.

Jan Morris

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All moments of joy include an element of happiness. But not all moments of happiness include joy. Happiness often comes from drive reduction-avoidance of pain or the pursuit of pleasure for pleasure's sake. The essence of joy, on the other hand, is spirit.

Laurel Mellin

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Existence was given us for action, rather than indolent and aimless contemplation; our worth is determined by the good deeds we do, rather than by the fine emotions we feel. They greatly mistake who suppose that God cares for no other pursuit than devotion.

Elias Lyman Magoon

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It's very important to remember that it's your intellectual property; it's not your computer. And in the pursuit of protection of intellectual property, it's important not to defeat or undermine the security measures that people need to adopt in these days.

Stewart Baker

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Sabbath, in the first instance, is not about worship. It is about work stoppage. It is about withdrawal from the anxiety system of Pharaoh, the refusal to let one's life be defined by production and consumption and the endless pursuit of private well-being.

Walter Brueggemann

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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing, things like rejection and setbacks will not hinder you in your pursuit. You believe that nothing can stop you!

Mike Krzyzewski

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Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives." "Study and, in general, the pursuit of truth and beauty is the sphere in which we are permitted to remain children all our lives.

Albert Einstein

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Photography is, and has been since its conception, a fabulously broad church. Contemporary practice demonstrates that the medium can be a prompt, a process, a vehicle, a collective pursuit, and not just the physical end product of solitary artists' endeavors.

Charlotte Cotton

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The measure of woman's distaste for any part of her life lies not in the loudness of her lamentations (these are only an attempt to buy a martyr's crown at a reduced price) but in her persistent pursuit of that occupation of which she never ceases to complain.

Quentin Crisp

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A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are meaningless. What you call individual rights are merely the cultural fantasy of a failed civilization.

Matthew Woodring Stover