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• In life you must often choose between getting a job done or getting credit for it. In science, the most important thing is not the ideas you have but the decision which ones you choose to pursue. If you have an idea and are not doing anything with it, why spoil someone else's fun by publishing it?

  Leo Szilard

  Jobs, Fun, Ideas

  "Some Szilardisms on War, Fame, Peace". Life magazine, Vol. 51, No. 9, p. 79, September 01, 1961.

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• Any person who pursues human rights in Iran must live with fear from birth to death, but I have learned to overcome my fear.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Rights, Iran, Overcoming

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• I'm a poor kid from the streets. What I've been able to achieve has really just been through hard work and not letting anyone tell me that I couldn't do something. I always try to encourage people to just pursue your dreams.

  Dave Bautista

  Dream, Hard Work, Kids

  Source: collider.com

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• If you pursue two hares, both will escape you.

  Robert Jordan

  Two, Hares, Ifs

  Robert Jordan (2010). “A Crown of Swords: Book Seven of 'The Wheel of Time'”, p.175, Macmillan

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• Besides my religious commitment, the greatest single factor that has enabled me to pursue my business and political objectives has been the security and freedom of my home.

  Preston Manning

  Religious, Home, Commitment

  "The New Canada". Book by Preston Manning, 1992.

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• I see the right, and I approve it too,Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

  Samuel Garth

  Samuel Garth (2017). “Ovid’s Metamorphoses”, p.301, Youcanprint

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• Goal setting is the essence of life. Tenaciously pursue your goals not for external praise but for inner reward. It makes you a better person, parent, professional. It is important to be constantly growing.

  Bob Proctor

  Essence, Goal, Parent

  FaceBook post by Bob Proctor from Dec 29, 2011

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• There are different paths that one can pursue as a painter. I work with the thesis that I have not as yet reached my goal. This engagement is the necessary basis from which I plan new paintings.

  Jorg Immendorff

  Goal, Different, Engagement

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• Hide what you have to hide And tell what you have to tell You'll see your problems multiplied If you continually decide To faithfully pursue The policy of truth

  William Batchelder Greene

  Truth, Problem, Policy

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• Each state pursues its own interest's, however defined, in ways it judges best. Force is a means of achieving the external ends of states because there exists no consistent, reliable process of reconciling the conflicts of interest that inevitably arise among similar units in a condition of anarchy.

  Kenneth Waltz

  Mean, Judging, Way

  Kenneth N. Waltz (2010). “Man, the State, and War: A Theoretical Analysis”, p.238, Columbia University Press

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• my advice to every student who is trying to make a decision for the years immediately after graduation: take the opportunity that in your mind is the most rewarding, that you are most passionate about and that you find most interesting and save the rest of your life for being risk averse. Whatever you want to do, this is the time to pursue it. Twenty years from now, your freedom to take risks will be limited.

  Kenneth C. Griffin

  Opportunity, Years, Interesting

  Interview with Harvard Investment Magazine, Winter 2005.

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• I have spoken all over the world and I have great respect for Muslims, I have great respect for the African people, I have respect for the other races. Even back home in Lousiana, I'm called a racist, but I have respect for the Black people of my country and I want them to have their own life, too, and I want them to be able to pursue their own destiny and not be controlled, and not be damaged.

  David Duke

  Country, Home, Destiny

  David Duke Podcast, www.davidduke.com. August 25, 2006.

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• Guard, O my soul, against pomp and glory. And if you cannot curb your ambitions, at least pursue them hesitantly, cautiously. And the higher you go, the more searching and careful you need to be.

  C.P. Cavafy

  Ambition, Soul, Needs

  C. P. Cavafy (2015). “Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy”, p.14, Princeton University Press

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• I started to see human beings as little lonesome, water based, pink meat, life forms pushing air through themselves and making noises that the other little pieces of meat seemed to understand. I was thinking to myself, 'There's five billion people here but we've never been more isolated.' The only result of the aggressive individualism we pursue is that you lose sight of your compassion and we go to bed at night thinking, 'Is this all there is?' because we don't feel fulfilled.

  Devin Townsend

  Night, Thinking, Compassion

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• Thinkers are scarce as gold; but he whose thoughts embrace all his subject, and who pursues it uninterruptedly and fearless of consequences, is a diamond of enormous size.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  Fearless, Gold, Size

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• There is a rawness and a wonder to life. Pursue it. Hunt for it. Sell out to get it. Don't listen to the whines of those who have settled for a second-rate life and want you to do the same so they won't feel guilty. Your goal is not to live long; it's to live.

  Max Lucado

  Long, Goal, Want

  Max Lucado (1999). “He Still Moves Stones”, p.66, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The rule should be HS students should be allowed to pursue their career

  Arn Tellem

  Careers, Students, Should

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• The natural proclivity of democratic governments is to pursue public policies which concentrate benefits on the well-organized and well-informed, and disperse the costs on the unorganized and ill-informed.

  Peter Boettke

  Government, Cost, Benefits

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• If youre not concerned about maintaining an image, you can pursue roads that another actor might not take.

  Kevin Spacey

  Actors, Might, Maintaining

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• If the Federal Reserve pursues a policy which Congress or the President believes not to be in the public interest, there is nothing Congress can do to reverse the policy. Nor is there anything the people can do. Such bastions of unaccountable power are undemocratic. The Federal Reserve System must be reformed, so that it is answerable to the elected representatives of the people.

  Wright Patman

  Believe, People, President

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• One of the greatest mistakes that people make who pursue self-discovery is they neglect to develop their careers. There is a popular notion that those who seek enlightenment should abandon the things of this world.

  Frederick Lenz

  Success, Mistake, Buddhism

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• There is no sphere in which a human being can be supposed to act where one mode of reasoning will not, in every given instance, be more reasonable than any other mode. That mode the being is bound by every principle of justice to pursue.

  William Godwin

  Justice, Atheism, Spheres

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• Two hundred years ago the forces of freedom challenged this idea. The children of the new enlightenment rose up to defy the tyranny of arrogant clergy and the censorship of pious bureaucrats. They boldly proclaimed that the state must be free from religious coercion and that religion must be free from state control. All individuals have the right to pursue the dictates of their own conscience. All citizens even have the right not to be religious at all.

  Sherwin Wine

  Religious, Children, Years

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• At around 19 I realized that I really didn't have any skills other than making people laugh, so I should probably pursue it full-time.

  Adam Pally

  Skills, Laughing, People

  "Mindy’s Pally". Interview with Devon Ivie, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 16, 2014.

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• I think there's always an expectation when you're a first generation, especially a first-generation Nigerian, of sort of being a doctor or a lawyer or an engineer. And so, you know, sort of my initial pursuits into the arts and that I was going to pursue film as a career didn't confuse them, but it was definitely something that they were scared about.

  Terry Gross

  Art, Thinking, Doctors

  Source: www.npr.org

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