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• Small habits well pursued betimes May reach the dignity of crimes.

  Hannah More

  May, Dignity, Crime

  'Florio' (1786) pt. 1, l. 77

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• The basic question that the 'new science' raises for our balance sheet is the issue of what scientific questions have not been asked for 500 years, which scientific risks have not been pursued. It raises the question of who has decided what scientific risks were worth taking, and what have been the consequences in terms of the power structures of the world.

  Immanuel Wallerstein

  Issues, Years, Risk

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• The cookbooks and the writing in general have been a real bonus, but it's not something I've ever pursued... I've been lucky, I guess.

  Padma Lakshmi

  Real, Writing, Lucky

  "Beautiful and damned" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. April 7, 2006.

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• The means by which I preserve my own health are, temperance, early rising, and spunging the body every morning with cold water, a practice I have pursued for thirty years ; and though I go from this heated theatre into the squares of the Hospital, in the severest winter nights, with merely silk stockings on my legs, yet I scarcely ever have a cold.

  Astley Cooper

  Morning, Health, Mean

  Sir Astley Cooper (1825). “The Lectures of Sir Astley Cooper: On the Principles and Practice of Surgery”, p.58

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• To be a Christian is to be loved by God, pursued by God, and found by God.

  David Platt

  Christian, Follow Me, Found

  David Platt (2013). “Follow Me: A Call to Die. A Call to Live.”, p.49, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

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• For freemen like brothers agree; With one spirit endured, they one friendship pursued, And their temple was Liberty Tree

  Thomas Paine

  Brother, Tree, Liberty

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• At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.

  Danica McKellar

  Passion, College, Media

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• I had the chance to be governor for eight years and I took a year to transition out and a year to transition in, so that's a decade of my life where I pursued my own ambitions and I thought it was time to rearrange my life to focus on other things.

  Jeb Bush

  Ambition, Eight, Years

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• Two presidents pursued human rights policies that were serious and effective, Reagan and George W. Bush. They understood that American support for human rights activists is a moral imperative for us and also makes the world safer for us.

  Elliott Abrams

  Rights, Two, Support

  "Obama’s Human Rights Disaster". Interview with Jamie Glazov, archive.frontpagemag.com. August 25, 2009.

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• I believe that the American administration of Iraq has been arrogant, has pursued policies that are illegal in international law and has been ignorant and incompetent. I said this very forthrightly to the senators.

  Juan Cole

  Believe, Law, Iraq

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• I pursued a theatre career, and Hollywood came calling.

  Len Cariou

  Careers, Theatre, Hollywood

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• In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

  John Ensign

  Race, Should Have, Percentages

  "Sen. John Ensign on the Senate's Wild First Day". "The Hannity & Colmes Show", www.realclearpolitics.com. January 6, 2009.

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• So, from a very young age, my mom tells me that I wanted to be Michael J. Fox. I didn't want to be an actor. I just wanted to be Michael J. Fox for awhile. And then, I realized that he was an actor, so I pursued that.

  Patrick J. Adams

  Mom, Age, Want

  "Patrick J. Adams Talks SUITS, Joining the Show, Challenging Scenes, Improv on Set and Fan Expectations for the Rest of Season 2". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 14, 2012.

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• Nonviolence is an unchangeable creed. It has to be pursued even in face of violence raging around you.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Peace, Faces, Violence

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• I am convinced that the public, large majority of the Greek people, realize that policies pursued in the past and the market practices have to be changed, in order to improve the prospects of the Greek economy. So there is, I think, strong public support despite the increases in social tensions.

  Lucas Papademos

  Strong, Past, Thinking

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• When the dream came into being, I always pursued it.

  Marguerite Young

  Dream

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• What is an intellectual? In general, someone seriously devoted to what used to be called the “life of the mind”: thinking pursued not instrumentally, for the sake of practical goals, but simply for the sake of knowing and understanding.

  Gary Gutting

  Thinking, Knowing, Goal

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• Policies are being pursued that place on the same level a multi-child family and a same-sex partnership, a faith in God and a belief in Satan. This is the path to degradation.

  Vladimir Putin

  Sex, Children, Degradation

  "Whose Side Is God on Now?" by Pat Buchanan, www.realclearpolitics.com. April 04, 2014.

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• The value of the goal lies in the goal itself; and therefore the goal cannot be attained unless it is pursued for its own sake.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Lying, Goal, Sake

  "A Study of History". Book by Arnold J. Toynbee, 1934-1961.

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• I have no idea how to become successful in children's tv programming today other than to say that whereever you find that rare animal being pursued, insert yourself into its environment; get in the door in any position and work from within.

  William Jackson

  Children, Successful, Animal

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• I have not been part of an active counterculture movement, as it is not the approach that I have personally pursued to create a qualitatively beneficial and meaningful impact on society.

  Al Seckel

  Meaningful, Impact, Counter Culture

  "An Interesting Walk Through Counterculture" by Al Seckel, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 2, 2009.

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• I moved out to L.A. when I was 17, dropped out of high school, and pursued a career in music.

  Skylar Grey

  School, Careers, Moved

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.

  Seneca the Younger

  Enjoyment

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 225-26, Epistles, XXIII. 3. 4, 1922.

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• A nickname a man may chance to wear out; but a system of calumnity, pursued by a faction, may descend even to posterity. This principal has taken full effect on this state favorite.

  Isaac D'Israeli

  Taken, Men, May

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• The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea, in the conquest of the goal pursued.

  Robert Briffault

  Ideas, Goal, Touching

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