Pursuit Quotes - Page 6

• 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

  Knowledge, Life Is, Limitless

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

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Today

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2013

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• The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.70

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• The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

  Charles Babbage

  Education, Science, May

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Fighting, Long

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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.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Noble, Want, Break

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• Science is the pursuit of pure truth, and the systematizing of it.

  P. T. Barnum

  Pure

  P. T. Barnum (2013). “The Humbugs of the World”, p.12, Lulu.com

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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.

  Bob Brown

  Eternity, Here And Now, Prerogative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.

  Bobby Flay

  Holiday, Men, Games

  "Celebrity Chefs' Christmas Treats & Traditions". Martha Stewart Show, www.goodhousekeeping.com. November 8, 2010.

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• We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Todd Akin

  Happiness, Believe, Blessed

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• My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Happiness, Aim, Pursuit Of Happiness

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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.

  Thandie Newton

  Use, Kind, Film

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are 100 percent responsible for the pursuit of holiness, but at the same time we are 100 percent dependent upon the Holy Spirit to enable us in that pursuit. The pursuit of holiness is not a pull-yourself-up-by-your-own-bootstraps approach to the Christian life.

  Jerry Bridges

  Christian, Holiness, Spirit

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

  David Antin

  Fundamentals, Theory, Not Sure

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• Some of us learned in a school of philosophy which taught that all was for the common good and nothing for oneself and have never, in any case, regarded the pursuit of happiness as anything other than an aberration of the human spirit.

  John Grierson

  Philosophy, School, Pursuit Of Happiness

  John Grierson, Ian Lockerbie, John Grierson Archive (1990). “Eyes of democracy”, Grierson Archive

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• A terrorist is one who kills innocents for the pursuit of a political aim.

  Richard Armitage

  Political, Terrorist, Aim

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• He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them.

  Charles Babbage

  Independent, Successful, Science

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• To a greater or lesser degree, the project of the self becomes translated into one of the possession of desired goods and the pursuit of artificially framed styles of life. (...) Not just lifestyles, but self-actualisation is packaged and distributed according to market criteria.

  Anthony Giddens

  Self, Style, Degrees

  Anthony Giddens (2013). “Modernity and Self-Identity: Self and Society in the Late Modern Age”, p.204, John Wiley & Sons

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

  Virgil Goode

  Energy, United States, Alternatives

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

  Hu Jintao

  Country, Rights, People

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• When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

  Donald Johanson

  Years, Choices, Fossils

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.

  Louis J. Halle

  Space, Views, Common Purpose

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• Observation and theory get on best when they are mixed together, both helping one another in the pursuit of truth. It is a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in a theory until it has been confirmed by observation. I hope I shall not shock the experimental physicists too much if I add that it is also a good rule not to put overmuch confidence in the observational results that are put forward until they have been confirmed by theory.

  Arthur Eddington

  Science, Together, Add

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• I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.

  Paul Nurse

  Effort, Important, Essentials

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