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• We are wont to condemn self-love; but what we really mean to condemn is contrary to self-love. It is that mixture of selfishness and self-hate that permanently pursues us, that prevents us from loving others, and that prohibits us from losing ourselves.

  Paul Valery

  Hate, Mean, Self

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• In the Now, there really is no destination. Each moment is lived for its own sake, even as you move toward whatever you many choose to pursue. When you are focused on some outcome or achievement-or are looking forward to the day when you are able to live in conditions that you imagine will be superior to whatever currently exists-your life right now becomes just an interval on the way to the next event.

  Richard Moss

  Moving, Achievement, Events

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• In Alabama this would be a capital case, and if we don't get justice in Australia we're going to pursue the death penalty here

  Troy King

  Australia, Justice, Alabama

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• Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly.

  Horace

  Sleep, Wine, Leisure

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• Cultivate your garden… Do not depend upon teachers to educate you … follow your own bent, pursue your curiosity bravely, express yourself, make your own harmony… In the end, education, like happiness, is individual, and must come to us from life and from ourselves. There is no way; each pilgrim must make his own path. "Happiness," said Chamfort, "is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves, and impossible to find it elsewhere.

  Will Durant

  Teacher, Garden, Joy

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• Follow a shadow, it still flies you, Seem to fly, it will pursue: So court a mistress, she denies you; Let her alone, she will court you. Say are not women truly, then, Styled but the shadows of us men?

  Ben Jonson

  Men, Mistress, Shadow

  'That Women are but Men's Shadows' (1616)

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• Envy will merit as its shade pursue, But like a shadow, proves the substance true.

  Alexander Pope

  Envy, Shadow, Substance

  Alexander Pope (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Alexander Pope (Illustrated)”, p.154, Delphi Classics

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• Historically in restaurants, the service staff is awarded significantly higher wages than cooks and other staff who prepare the food on which a restaurant's reputation is based. The gap in pay is so great that it is becoming increasingly difficult for young cooks to pursue their passion at the rate of pay restaurants are able to afford.

  Thomas Keller

  Passion, Cooking, Gaps

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• No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Law, Long, Doe

  Immanuel Kant, H. S. Reiss (1991). “Kant: Political Writings”, p.74, Cambridge University Press

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• What seems to set apart those at the very top of competitive pursuits from others of roughly equal ability is the degree to which, beginning early in life, they can pursue an arduous practice routine for years and years.

  Daniel Goleman

  Years, Practice, Degrees

  Daniel Goleman (2012). “Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ”, p.135, Bantam

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• When Michelangelo was introduced to Titian, he said... that Titian's colouring and his style much pleased him, but that it was a pity that in Venice men did not learn to draw well from the beginning, and that those painters did not pursue a better method in their studies.

  Giorgio Vasari

  Men, Venice, Style

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• All classes of society are trade unionists at heart, and differ chiefly in the boldness, ability, and secrecy with which they pursue their respective interests.

  William Stanley Jevons

  Heart, Class, Secrecy

  1882 The State in Relation to Labour, introduction.

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• Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter to me.

  Steve Jobs

  Men, Best Job, Design Work

  Steve Jobs (0101). “Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs”, p.57, Prabhat Prakashan

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• Pursue your dreams and see the opportunities in life's setbacks.

  Steve Jobs

  Dream, Opportunity, Setback

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• If I want to pursue the art of painting - or music or writing or sculpture - it requires only my time and a few dollars for materials. If, however, I want to produce a motion picture I have to go out and raise a million dollars!

  Orson Welles

  Art, Writing, Want

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• Each day that we live, we're taking in new information, ideas, concepts, experiences, and sensations. We need to consciously stand guard at the doors of our minds to make sure that whatever we're allowing to enter will cause our lives to be enriched, that the experiences we pursue will add to our stockpile of possibility.

  Tony Robbins

  Motivational, Ideas, Doors

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• Those who pursue a worldy life - who try to get others to do what they want, to peform for them, who use and abuse in the name of their own happiness - are miserable.

  Frederick Lenz

  Karma, Yoga, Names

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• I pursue this dream and carry on. I don't dwell too much on the outside, I just focus on the inside.

  Conor McGregor

  Dream, Mma, Focus

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• The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

  John Updike

  Florida, Light, Illumination

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.75, Random House

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• Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

  Ovid

  Wind, Calumny, Slander

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Ideas, Sometimes

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• We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

  Robert Breault

  Goal, Effort, Gains

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• Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

  William J. Clinton

  Pain, Memories, War

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• It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Finals, Intellect

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Independence, Liberty

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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