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• The world is devoted to physical science, because it believes theses discoveries will increase its capacity of luxury and self-indulgence. But the pursuit of science only leads to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Believe, Science, Discovery

  Benjamin Disraeli (1875). “Collected Edition of the Novels and Tales”, p.70

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• My aim in life isn't so much the pursuit of happiness as the happiness of pursuit.

  Charles Saatchi

  Happiness, Aim, Pursuit Of Happiness

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• We have a long heritage of freedom that defines America. We believe there is a Creator who blessed us with life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Todd Akin

  Happiness, Believe, Blessed

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• When great causes are on the move in the world, stirring all men's souls, drawing them from their firesides, casting aside comfort, wealth and the pursuit of happiness in response to impulses at once awe-striking and irresistible, we learn that we are spirits, not animals.

  Winston Churchill

  Moving, Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Sir Winston Churchill (1993). “The Churchill War Papers: The Ever-Widening War 1941”, William Heinemann

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• I'm not sure what theory is, unless it's the pursuit of fundamental questions.

  David Antin

  Fundamentals, Theory, Not Sure

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• Free inquiry entails recognition of civil liberties as integral to its pursuit, that is, a free press, freedom of communication, the right to organize opposition parties and to join voluntary associations, and freedom to cultivate and publish the fruits of scientific, philosophical, artistic, literary, moral and religious freedom.

  Paul Kurtz

  Religious, Party, Communication

  Paul Kurtz (1983). “In defense of secular humanism”, Prometheus Books

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• He will also find that the high and independent spirit, which usually dwells in the breast of those who are deeply versed in scientific pursuits, is ill adapted for administrative appointments; and that even if successful, he must hear many things he disapproves, and raise no voice against them.

  Charles Babbage

  Independent, Successful, Science

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• And rural nature is full of the same quickening spirit-it is, in fact, the exhaustless mine from which the poet and the painter have brought such wondrous treasures-an unfailing fountain of intellectual enjoyment, where all may drink, and be awakened to a deeper feeling of the works of genius, and a keener perception of the beauty of our existence. For those whose days are all consumed in the low pursuits of avarice, or the gaudy frivolities of fashion, unobservant of nature's loveliness, are unconscious of the harmony of creation

  Thomas Cole

  Fashion, Nature, Feelings

  Thomas Cole (1980). “The collected essays and prose sketches”

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• Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.

  Virgil Goode

  Energy, United States, Alternatives

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• When the first fossils began to be found in eastern Africa, in the late 1950s, I thought, what a wonderful marriage this was, biology and anthropology. I was around 16 years old when I made this particular choice of academic pursuit.

  Donald Johanson

  Years, Choices, Fossils

  "The Quest for Human Origins". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. January 25, 1991.

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• The prospective colonization of space responds, not to the particular problems of the American nation, or of any other nation, but to those of mankind as a whole... In an ideal view, such an undertaking by mankind as a whole would tend to divert it from its present preoccupation with international conflict, would tend to channel its energies into the pursuit of a great common purpose.

  Louis J. Halle

  Space, Views, Common Purpose

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• What we now call school training, the pursuit of fixed studies at stated hours under the constant guidance of a teacher, I could scarcely be said to have enjoyed.

  Simon Newcomb

  Teacher, School, Training

  Simon Newcomb (1903). “The reminiscences of an astronomer”, Harper and Brothers

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• Music shouldn't be based around money or politics. Music should be a bunch of people that really do great songs together doing them together for the pursuit of having a good time.

  Gerald Caiafa

  Song, People, Together

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• In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Business, Successful, Foundation

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• Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

  Ted Strickland

  Home, Risk, Pioneers

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• The most noble of all pursuits is to be enlightened, to know truth, to have knowledge and yet be beyond even truth and knowledge, to be God.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Buddhism, Noble

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• Trivial Pursuit means that you've got nothing going on in your life. Trivial Pursuit is more than a board game. It is the way most people live. Their lives are trivial pursuits.

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Mean, Buddhism

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• He who has realized love for God in his heart is tireless in his pursuit of the Lord his God, and bears every hardship, reproach and insult nobly, never thinking the least evil of anyone.

  Maximus the Confessor

  Christian, Heart, Thinking

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• I'm an enormous fan of Thomas Bernhard's books, and I like the relentless feeling in his work - the pursuit of darkness, the negative - and I think in some sense I've internalised that as what one is supposed to do.

  Ben Marcus

  Book, Thinking, Darkness

  "Ben Marcus: 'Writing has to earn people's interest'". Interview with Killian Fox, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.

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• Slow down in your pursuit of happiness and it's more likely to catch up with you.

  Ernie J Zelinski

  Inspirational, Pursuit Of Happiness, Slow Down

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• Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Reality

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• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

  Bill McKibben

  Future, Two, People

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• In the application of Satyagraha, I discovered, in the earliest stages, that pursuit of Truth did not admit of violence being inflicted on one's opponent, but that he must be weaned from error by patience and sympathy. For, what appears to be truth to the one may appear to be error to the other. And patience means self-suffering. So the doctrine came to mean vindication of Truth, not by infliction of suffering on the opponent but one's own self.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Self, Errors

  Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.61, Hackett Publishing

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• In every passionate pursuit, the pursuit counts more than the object pursued.

  Eric Hoffer

  Passionate, Objects, Pursued

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• The weak are not a noble breed. Their sublime deeds of faith, daring, and self-sacrifice usually spring from questionable motives. The weak hate not wickedness but weakness; and one instance of their hatred of weakness is hatred of self. All the passionate pursuits of the weak are in some degree a striving to escape, blur, or disguise an unwanted self. It is a striving shot through with malice, envy, self-deception, and a host of petty impulses; yet it often culminates in superb achievements.

  Eric Hoffer

  Hate, Spring, Sacrifice

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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