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• Augustine started from God's grace and got it right, Pelagius started from human effort and got it wrong. Augustine passionately pursued God; Pelagius methodically worked to please God.

  Philip Yancey

  Effort, Grace, Augustine

  Philip Yancey (1997). “What's So Amazing about Grace?”, p.71, Harper Collins

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• You will have Time, that rare and lovely gift that your Western countries have lost the more they have pursued it.

  James Hilton

  Country, Lovely, Lost

  James Hilton (1988). “Lost Horizon”, p.154, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is one instance in which a foreign policy I pursued met with unambiguous failure, it was my policy on German reunification.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Mets, Foreign Policy, Reunification

  Margaret Thatcher, Iain Dale (1997). “As I said to Denis--: the Margaret Thatcher book of quotations”, Robson Book Ltd

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• When the persecution of an individual who has exposed an evil is pursued so ruthlessly and yet the evil itself is studiedly ignored, all of us know that there is something very wrong with the way that our society is conducting itself. And if we do not protest in the strongest terms about what is being done in our name, then we become complicit.

  Alan Moore

  Names, Evil, Done

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• Effective law enforcement and social justice must be pursued together, as the foundation of our efforts against crime.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Law, Justice, Effort

  Johnson, Lyndon B. (1967). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: Lyndon B. Johnson, 1966”, p.299, Best Books on

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• Obama's failure to close Guantanamo is yet another instance where the rhetoric of democratic and constitutional rights proved not useful for his international relations, relations which are always pursued in ways that continue to link and fortify securitarian power with the opening of new markets.

  Judith Butler

  Rights, Links, Way

  "Weapon of the Strong: Conversations on US State Terrorism". Book by Jon Bailes and Cihan Aksan, November 27, 2012.

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• From a very young age I had an ambition to be a musician, and to do that professionally. That's what I pursued until I was about 20, playing in bands that were taken pretty seriously at that stage.

  Cillian Murphy

  Taken, Ambition, Age

  "The Shy Man’s Revenge". Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 17, 2014.

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• Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued.

  Jim Rohn

  Ambition, Self, Discipline

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• What psycho-analysis reveals in the transference phenomena of neurotics can also be observed in the lives of some normal people. The impression they give is of being pursued by a malignant fate or possessed by some 'daemonic' power; but psycho-analysis has always taken the view that their fate is for the most part arranged by themselves and determined by early infantile influences.

  Sigmund Freud

  Taken, Fate, Views

  Sigmund Freud (2015). “Beyond the Pleasure Principle”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• You don't get to cut that chain of evidence and start over. You're always going to be pursued by your data shadow, which is forming from thousands and thousands of little leaks and tributaries of information.

  Bruce Sterling

  Cutting, Data, Starting Over

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• I can't say that I pursued a career. I really didn't, it just sort of happened.

  Angela Lansbury

  Careers, Happened, I Can

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• ....there is no end to observations on the difference between the measures likely to be pursued by a minister backed by a standing army, and those of a court awed by the fear of an armed people.

  James Burgh

  Army, Differences, People

  James Burgh (1774). “Political Disquisitions: Or, An Enquiry Into Public Errors, Defects, and Abuses”, p.476

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• Sabbath ceasing means to cease not only from work itself, but also from the need to accomplish and be productive, from the worry and tension that accompany our modern criterion of efficiency, from our efforts to be in control of our lives as if we were God, from our possessiveness and our enculturation, and, finally, from the humdrum and meaninglessness that result when life is pursued without the Lord at the center of it all.

  Marva Dawn

  Mean, Worry, Effort

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• The United States has weakened itself with Iraq; Iranians feel victorious - they feel capable of filling the void. I think from the very outset the nuclear issue has been secondary to the more strategic outlook, in which the United States has, since 1991, pursued a policy that it cannot permit any country in the region to become too powerful and challenge American hegemony.

  Trita Parsi

  Country, Powerful, Thinking

  "Trita Parsi: The NIE’s Got Nothing on Him". Interview with Justin Elliott, www.motherjones.com. December 5, 2007.

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• When I first pursued this with Universal, they had no idea what to do. But now that we've gone through the whole process and I've signed this 60-page document that says what we can and can't do, I suppose it will be a little bit easier for the next person.

  DJ Shadow

  Ideas, Gone, Littles

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• Change of ministers amounts to nothing. One goes out, another comes in, and still the same measures, vices, and extravagances are pursued. It signifies not who is minister. The defect lies in the system. The foundation and superstructure of the government is bad. Prop it as you please, it continually sinks and ever will.

  Thomas Paine

  Lying, Government, Political

  Thomas Paine (2014). “Selected Writings of Thomas Paine”, p.353, Yale University Press

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• If you've been a pretty woman and always pursued by lovers, losing that and not having that - it feels like a great loss.

  Erica Jong

  Loss, Pretty Woman, Losing

  "The Believer Interview with Erica Jong". Interview with Whitney Joiner, logger.believermag.com. October 17, 2013.

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• Everyone who's been in space would, I'm sure, welcome the opportunity for a return to the exhilarating experiences there. For me, a flight in a shuttle, though most satisfying, would be anticlimactic after my flight to the moon. Plus, if I pursued a flight myself, people would think that was the reason I am trying to generate interest in public spaceflight. And that's not the purpose - I want to generate interest in long-range space exploration.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Moon, Opportunity, Thinking

  Scholastic Interview, teacher.scholastic.com. November 17, 1998.

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• The incapacity of a weak and distracted government may often assume the appearance and produce the effects of a treasonable correspondence with the public enemy. If Alaric himself had been introduced into the council of Ravenna, he would probably have advised the same measures which were actually pursued by the ministers of Honorius.

  Edward Gibbon

  Government, History, Enemy

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.563, Modern Library

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• The maxim of Cleobulus, "Mediocrity is best," has been long considered a universal principle, extending through the whole compass of life and nature. The experience of every age seems to have given it new confirmation, and to show that nothing, however specious or alluring, is pursued with propriety or enjoyed with safety beyond certain limits.

  Samuel Johnson

  Safety, Long, Age

  Samuel Johnson (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.68

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• If every young person pursued their greatest passion and then said, 'What part of this can be applied to social good?' You don't have to choose between being successful and being a philanthropist.

  Monique Coleman

  Passion, Successful, Social

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• I haven't pursued it as a senator because I know it's like spitting in the wind. But I still believe it's the right thing. And if I were governor and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  Wendy Davis

  Believe, Gun, Wind

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• When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.

  Masiela Lusha

  Heart, Acting, Selfless

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• I was playing video games LONG before I ever thought about playing football. If it wasn't for my parents making sure that I got outside every now and then as a child, I probably would've pursued some sort of tech path.

  Chris Kluwe

  Football, Children, Games

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• It is only when you are pursued that you become swift.

  Khalil Gibran

  Speed

  Khalil Gibran “The New Frontier and Sand and Foam”, Library of Alexandria

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