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• All the objects pursued by the multitude not only bring no remedy that tends to preserve our being, but even act as hinderances, causing the death not seldom of those who possess them, and always of those who are possessed by them.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Remedy, Multitudes, Objects

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• Taste is pursued at a less expense than fashion.

  William Shenstone

  Fashion, Taste, Expenses

  William Shenstone (1868). “Essays on Men and Manners”, p.248

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• Religion does not censure or exclude
  Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued.

  William Cowper

  Religion, Doe, Pleasure

  William Cowper (1866). “Poems”, p.164

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• Fame, or notoriety, whichever that special noise may be called when the world like a hound 'gives tongue' and announces that the quarry in some form of genius is at bay, is apt to increase its clamor in proportion to the aloofness of the pursued animal.

  Marie Corelli

  Animal, Giving, Special

  Marie Corelli (2016). “Innocent”, p.391, Marie Corelli

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• I never pursued anything but acting. But as a kid, I was really interested in the Supreme Court. I wanted to to be a Supreme Court justice, but didn't want to be a lawyer. I just wanted to go straight to being a justice.

  Gillian Jacobs

  Kids, Justice, Acting

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• I knew I wanted to pursue a career in the theater the minute I graduated from college having not pursued it! So I went back to school and got a degree in music and began working in musical theater.

  Nancy Allen

  School, College, Careers

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• "But even if he has been wicked," pursued Rose, "think how young he is; think that he may never have known a mother's love, or the comfort of a home; that ill-usage and blows, or the want of bread, may have driven him to herd with men who have forced him to guilt. Aunt, dear aunt, for mercy's sake, think of this, before you let them drag this sick child to a prison, which in any case must be the grave of all his chances of amendment."

  Charles Dickens

  Mother, Nature, Children

  Charles Dickens (2017). “The Charles Dickens Collection Volume One: Oliver Twist, Great Expectations, and Bleak House”, p.251, Open Road Media

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• "Some persons hold," he pursued, still hesitating, "that there is a wisdom of the Head, and that there is a wisdom of the Heart..."

  Charles Dickens

  Heart, Words Of Wisdom, Persons

  Charles Dickens (1854). “Hard Times”, p.264

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• The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

  Lajos Kossuth

  Years, House, Independence

  Lajos Kossuth (1853). “Select speeches, condensed and abridged by F.W. Newman”, p.12

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• I've always been timid. I wait for the mating signal, yet I want to show my interest, but I'm too goddamn bashful to go for it! I have no sympathy for wolves. Why can't a man wait and see if there is any interest in them? Every woman wants to be pursued, it's a courting dance, a mating game and it should be that way, played out. The world is full of creeps.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Men, Games, Waiting

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• Leaves and bark, leaves and bark,
  To lean against and hear in the dark.
  Petals I may have once pursued.
  Leaves are all my darker mood.

  Robert Frost

  Dark, May, Mood

  Robert Frost (1936). “A Further Range”

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• ... the histories of Blacks and Jews in bondage and out of bondage, have been blood histories pursued through our kindred searchings for self-determination. Let this blood be a stain of honor that we share. Let us not now become enemies to ourselves and to each other.

  June Jordan

  Determination, Blood, Self

  June Jordan (1985). “On call: political essays”, South End Pr

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• In childhood, death stirred me not; in middle age, it pursued me like a prowling bandit on the road; now, grown an old man, it boldly leads the way, and ushers me on.

  Herman Melville

  Death, Men, Childhood

  Herman Melville (1855). “Mardi: And a Voyage Thither”, p.347

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• Orthodox Judaism is a thicket of detailed injunctions, Biblical commandments elaborated during centuries of prohibited proselytizing, functioning to limit interaction with outsiders. At the opposite extreme, Islam, still the most rapidly expanding of faiths, demands little immediate knowledge from those who would convert. The convert is permitted to enter and then to learn by participation, although there are plenty of detailed regulations and abstruse theological ideas to be pursued later, and the regulations do effectively separate believers from nonbelievers.

  Mary Catherine Bateson

  Biblical, Opposites, Ideas

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• So the absurdity of happiness is that it is embarrassing to discuss or even mention, impossible to define or measure, may not be achievable at all - or, at best, only intermittently and unconsciously - and may even turn into its opposite if directly pursued, but that it frequently turns up unexpectedly in the course of pursuing something else. There is no tease more infuriating...It is tempting to forget the whole thing and simply fall back on the couch with a remote control in one hand and a beer in the other.

  Michael Foley

  Fall, Beer, Hands

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• One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dollars, Pursuit, Engaged

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

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• Well, part of it is the general fascination with the Amish. It's an extremely popular genre and Beverly Lewis just happens to have the market cornered. She is the bestselling author in this genre. We had actually optioned another one of her Amish books, The Redemption of Sarah Cain. We retitled it Saving Sarah Cain and it did extremely well for Lifetime so we pursued more of her novels.

  Michael Landon, Jr.

  Book, Fascination, Cain

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• Purpose must be deliberately conceived and chosen, and then pursued.

  Clayton Christensen

  Purpose, Chosen

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• If we had pursued the war on cancer which President Nixon declared in 1970, Jack Kemp might be alive today.

  Arlen Specter

  War, Cancer, President

  "Meet the Press", www.nbcnews.com. May 3, 2009.

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• If God exists then every good endeavor, even the simplest ones, pursued in response to God's calling can matter forever.

  Timothy Keller

  Forever, Matter, Calling

  Timothy Keller (2012). “Every Good Endeavor: Connecting Your Work to God's Work”, p.14, Penguin

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• Let's be clear about one indisputable fact: capitalism vigorously pursued has never produced the atrocities - starvation, tyranny, and genocide - that are produced by statism vigorously pursued. Nothing remotely close.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Atrocities, Facts, Genocide

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• The right way to proceed when we face the kind of challenges we face is to pursue the strategy which Ronald Reagan pursued when we faced the challenges of the last century.

  Mitt Romney

  Challenges, Way, Lasts

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• There are three kinds of men: those who are preceded by their shadow, those who are pursued by it, and those who have never seen the sun.

  Gerd de Ley

  Men, Shadow, Three

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• Looking back, I should have pursued philosophy and economics and things of that sort in college more, but I didn't.

  Dan Quayle

  Philosophy, College, Should Have

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• Time itself flows on with constant motion, just like a river: for no more than a river can the fleeting hour stand still. As wave is driven on by wave, and, itself pursued, pursues the one before, so the moments of time at once flee and follow, and are ever new.

  Ovid

  Rivers, Fleeting, Flow

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