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• Exit, pursued by a bear.

  William Shakespeare

  Bears, Exit, Surrealism

  'The Winter's Tale' (1610-1) act 3, sc. 3, stage direction

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• Both liberty and equality are among the primary goals pursued by human beings throughout many centuries; but total liberty for wolves is death to the lambs, total liberty of the powerful, the gifted, is not compatible with the rights to a decent existence of the weak and the less gifted.

  Isaiah Berlin

  Powerful, Rights, Goal

  Isaiah Berlin (1991). “The crooked timber of humanity: chapters in the history of ideas”, Random House Inc

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• Don't wish it was easier, wish you were better. Don't wish for less problems, wish for more skills. Don't wish for less challenges, wish for more wisdom. The major value in life is not what you get. The major value in life is what you become. Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

  Jim Rohn

  Life And Love, Skills, Challenges

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• Sure, I did a lot of things in excess. But if you look at the core, the foundation of what I pursued, what red-blooded young American male in my position wouldn't?

  Charlie Sheen

  Foundation, Males, Looks

  Interview with David Rensin, www.playboy.com. April 15, 2011.

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• Thus it is ever in life. The aims we once pursued no longer satisfy us; we aim, we strive, we aspire, until sight fails, and mind and body find rest in the grave.

  Robert Schumann

  Sight, Mind, Body

  Robert Schumann (2016). “Letters of Robert Schumann”, p.9, Ravenio Books

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• Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

  James Madison

  Freedom, 4th Of July, America

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (1842). “The Federalist, on the New Constitution, Written in the Year 1788”, p.64

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• I have pursued her, as love hath pursued me

  William Shakespeare

  Love You

  William Shakespeare, David Crane (1997). “The Merry Wives of Windsor”, p.79, Cambridge University Press

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• There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Tired, Busy, Great Gatsby American Dream

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2002). “F. Scott Fitzgerald: Trimalchio: An Early Version of 'The Great Gatsby'”, p.65, Cambridge University Press

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• History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have pursued personal power - bypassing parliaments and constitutions, distributing favours to their minions, and conflating their own desires with the interests of the community.

  Umberto Eco

  Men, Long, Community

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• He was a mystery to her, and every time she tried to solve him it caused her a little more pain. But when she tired to give him up he pursued her in her thoughts, stronger each time.

  Anna Godbersen

  Running, Pain, Tired

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• We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

  John O. Brennan

  Law, Secret, Information

  Council on Foreign Relations meeting, www.cfr.org. August 8, 2012.

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• Joy cannot be pursued. It comes from within. It is a state of being. It does not depend on circumstances, but triumphs over circumstances. It produces a gentleness of spirit and a magnetic personality.

  Billy Graham

  Personality, Joy, Triumph

  Billy Graham (2010). “Unto the Hills: A Daily Devotional”, p.14, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• And when you were a silent word upon Life's quivering lips, I too was there, another silent word. Then life uttered us and we came down the years throbbing with memories of yesterday and with longing for tomorrow, for yesterday was death conquered and tomorrow was birth pursued.

  Khalil Gibran

  Memories, Years, Yesterday

  Khalil Gibran (2007). “Kahlil Gibran: Masterpieces”

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• To say that the United States has pursued diplomacy with North Korea is a little bit misleading. It did under the Clinton administration, though neither side completely lived up to their obligations. Clinton didn't do what was promised, nor did North Korea, but they were making progress. So when Bush came into the presidency, North Korea had enough uranium or plutonium for maybe one or two bombs, but then very limited missile capacity. During the Bush years it's exploded. The reason is, he immediately canceled the diplomacy and he's pretty much blocked it ever since.

  Noam Chomsky

  Korea, Years, Two

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• Talent is a pursued interest. Anything that you're willing to practice, you can do.

  Bob Ross

  Practice, Happy Accidents, Talent

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• Nothing can be more notorious than the calumnies and invectives with which the wisest measures and most virtuous characters of The United States have been pursued and traduced [By American Newspapers]

  Thurgood Marshall

  Character, United States, Notorious

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• Money is usually attracted, not pursued.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Money, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Apr 02, 2016

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• Success is not to be pursued; it is to be attracted by the person you become.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Success, Basketball

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from May 05, 2017

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• I used to be married to a woman who pursued every spiritual trend with tremendous passion and dragged me along. I don't believe in anything. I'd seen mediums and readers.

  Harold Ramis

  Spiritual, Believe, Passion

  "Harold Ramis: Expect the Unexpected". Psychology Today interview, www.psychologytoday.com. July 1, 1996.

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• Had I not become a professional golfer, I think I would have pursued some type of career in aviation.

  Arnold Palmer

  Thinking, Careers, Aviation

  "AriZona 20 Years: Arnold Palmer". Interview with Miguel Enamorado, www.interviewmagazine.com. July 11, 2012.

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• I was always acting primarily with shareholder interests in mind.
  It's also true I've always had a fairly moralistic attitude to business, and would not do anything that I considered improper.
  As a consequence, I have occasionally pursued issues during my career that other people might have avoided.

  Chris Corrigan

  Inspirational, Attitude, Business

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• We will not wish we had made more money, acquired more stuff, lived more comfortably, taken more vacations, watched more television, pursued greater retirement, or been more successful in the eyes of this world. Instead, we will wish we had given more of ourselves to living for the day when every nation, tribe, people, and language will bow around the throne and sing the praises of the Savior who delights in radical obedience and the God who deserves eternal worship.

  David Platt

  Retirement, Taken, Eye

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• Theology is not a private subject for theologians only. Nor is it a private subject for professors. Fortunately, there have always been pastors who have understood more about theology than most professors. Nor is theology a private subject of study for pastors. Fortunately, there have repeatedly been congregation members, and often whole congregations, who have pursued theology energetically while their pastors were theological infants or barbarians. Theology is a matter for the Church.

  Karl Barth

  Church, Matter, Barbarians

  Karl Barth (2005). “God In Action: Theological Addresses”, p.26, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• Maybe Dauntless was formed with good intentions, with the right ideals and the right goals. But it has strayed far from them. And the same is true of Erudite, I realize. A long time ago, Erudite pursued knowledge and ingenuity for the sake of doing good. Now they pursue knowledge and ingenuity with greedy hearts. I wonder if the other factions suffer from the same problem. I have not thought about it before.

  Veronica Roth

  Heart, Long, Goal

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• Of course witnessing poverty was the first to be ticked off the list. Then I had to graduate to the more obscure stuff. Being in a riot was something I pursued with a truly obsessive zeal, along with being tear-gassed and hearing gunshots fired in anger.

  Alex Garland

  Tears, Poverty, Firsts

  Alex Garland (2005). “The Beach”, p.126, Penguin

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