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• Freedom is acquired by conquest, not by gift. It must be pursued constantly and responsibly. Freedom is not an ideal located outside of man; nor is it an idea which becomes myth. It is rather the indispensable condition for the quest for human completion.

  Paulo Freire

  Men, Ideas, Quests

  Paulo Freire (2014). “Pedagogy of the Oppressed: 30th Anniversary Edition”, p.33, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Wealth is, for most people, the only honest and likely path to liberty. With money comes power over the world. Men are freed from drudgery, women from exploitation. Businesses can be started, homes built, communities formed, religions practiced, educations pursued. But liberals aren't very interested in such real and material freedoms. They have a more innocent - not to say toddlerlike - idea of freedom. Liberals want the freedom to put anything into their mouths, to say bad words and to expose their private parts in art museums.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Art, Real, Home

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Give War a Chance: Eyewitness Accounts of Mankind's Struggle Against Tyranny, Injustice, and Alcohol-Free Beer”, p.21, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He can find the quality of happiness in the strain and travail only of achievement and growth. And he is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment which his life-urges demand when his is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

  Robert Briffault

  Life, Ideas, Goal

  Robert Briffault (1969). “Reasons for anger”, Books for Libraries

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• If you pursued something that you felt strongly about, then I call that success.

  Adora Svitak

  Entrepreneur, Felt, Ifs

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• Windy or not, a day this beautiful has to be lived. The day is bright and clear, the sky blue, and the dry air feels light. A northerly wind stirs a primal urge to move. The geese feel it, and so do I. Perhaps it is a last internal vestige from a time, long ago, when we migrated with the seasons across open plains, following the animals we pursued for food. Perhaps that is why the sight of migrating geese arrests our attention, why we feel the pull. We want to go, to travel in fresh or moody weather, taking in each newly revealed vista.

  Carl Safina

  Beautiful, Moving, Animal

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• I played from the time I was seven years old. My father was my first baseman coach. I had opportunities that I never really pursued - with some Miami teams and a few larger colleges, and then I ended up bailing and began cooking.

  Todd English

  Father, Team, Opportunity

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• It is the invariable habit of bureaucracies, at all times and everywhere, to assume...that every citizen is a criminal. Their one apparent purpose, pursued with a relentless and furious diligence, is to convert the assumption into a fact. They hunt endlessly for proofs, and, when proofs are lacking, for mere suspicions. The moment they become aware of a definite citizen, John Doe, seeking what is his right under the law, they begin searching feverishly for an excuse for withholding it from him.

  H. L. Mencken

  Law, Voting, Facts

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• The negro is indolent and a dreamer; spending his meager wage on frivolity or drink; the European has a tradition of work and saving, which has pursued him as far as this corner of America and drives him to advance himself, even independently of his own individual aspirations.

  Che Guevara

  America, Dreamer, Saving

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• Hinduism's basic tenet is that many roads exist by which men have pursued and still pursue their quest for the truth and that none has universal validity.

  Kenneth Scott Latourette

  Men, Quests, Hinduism

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• I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.

  Jim Henson

  Fun, Advice, Trying

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• Opportunities for fraud are open and they are taken advantage of. The most elementary precautions are neither taken nor even contemplated. The reverse is the case. People such as myself who attempt to bring openness and accountability to the system are pursued, suspended and dismissed.

  Marta Andreasen

  Taken, Opportunity, People

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• Can you blame me if I am pursued by the thought of how much we could do to remedy social evils, if only we had an honest and disinterested press?

  Upton Sinclair

  Media, Evil, Honest

  Upton Sinclair (2015). “The Brass Check: A Study of American Journalism”, p.101, Open Road Media

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• My dad wanted me to play when I was a kid, so I learned to play the guitar. I pursued a career in music because I love it so much and I enjoy what it does to those who hear it.

  Randy Travis

  Dad, Kids, Guitar

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• It is too early for politicians to presume on our forgetting that the public good, the real welfare of the great body of the people, is the supreme object to be pursued; and that no form of government whatever has any other value than as it may be fitted for the attainment of this object.

  James Madison

  Real, Government, People

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.64, Rowman & Littlefield

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• A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

  Stephen Birmingham

  New York, Cities, People

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• After examining some of the recent cases which the Postal Service has pursued, vigorous prosecution of, for example, a health food advocate.

  Vin Weber

  Dark, Age, Example

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• Abhyasa (practice) is a dedicated, unswerving, constant, and vigilant search into a chosen subject pursued against all odds in the face of repeated failures, for indefinitely long periods of time.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Odds, Practice, Long

  B. K. S. Iyengar (2012). “Light on the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali”, p.16, HarperCollins UK

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• Thinking should be like musical meditation. Has any philosopher pursued a thought to its limits the way Bach or Beethoven develop and exhaust a musical theme? Even after having read the most profound thinkers, one still feels the need to begin anew. Only music gives definitive answers.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Music, Thinking, Giving

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• Nothing, absolutely nothing, has a more direct bearing on the moral choices made by individuals or the purposes pursued by society than belief or disbelief in God.

  Ravi Zacharias

  Choices Made, Atheism, Purpose

  Ravi Zacharias (2004). “The Real Face of Atheism”, p.21, Baker Books

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• We cannot move casually into a better future. We cannot casually pursue the goal we have set for ourselves. A goal that is casually pursued is not a goal; at best it is a wish, and wishes are little more than self-delusion.

  Jim Rohn

  Moving, Self, Goal

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• Your greatest regret at the end of your life will be the lions you didn't chase. You will look back longingly on risks not taken, opportunities not seized, and dreams not pursued. Stop running away from what scares you most and start chasing the God-ordained opportunities that cross your path.

  Mark Batterson

  Running, Dream, Regret

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• Our praying, however, needs to be pressed and pursued with an energy that never tires, a persistency which will not be denied, and a courage which never fails.

  Edward McKendree Bounds

  Prayer, Energy, Needs

  Edward McKendree Bounds (1976). “The necessity of prayer”, Baker Pub Group

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• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  Caleb Cushing

  Gentleman, Looks, Done

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• Anything pursued and attained as a supposed compensation for the lack of self-love is ineffective and can get downright ugly.

  Jesse D. Jennings

  Simple, Love Is, Self

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• Happiness is not some 'thing' to be pursued it is a way of being born from appreciating

  Rasheed Ogunlaru

  Appreciate, Way, Born

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