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• Once the pursuit of truth begins to haunt the mind, it becomes an ideal never wholly attained.

  Agnes Meyer Driscoll

  Truth, Thoughtful, Thinking

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• We punish the body and strip the earth. And we do it in pursuit of a so-called holiness that smacks of the bogus, that denies the gifts of God, that makes us marauders on the earth.

  Joan D. Chittister

  Environmental, Body, Earth

  Joan D. Chittister (2004). “Called to Question: A Spiritual Memoir”, p.181, Sheed & Ward

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• You know I am given to antiquarian and genealogical pursuits. An old family letter is a delight to my eyes. I can prowl in old trunks of letters by the day with undiminished zest.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Family, Eye, Zest

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• Be fearless in the pursuit of what sets your soul on fire.

  Jennifer Lee

  Fire, Fearless, Soul

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• The essence of modernity is that progress no longer waits on genius; instead we have learned to put our faith in the organized efforts of ordinary men. Science is as old as the race, but the effective organization of science is new. Ancient science, like placer mining, was a pursuit of solitary prospectors. Nuggets of truth were found, but the total wealth of knowledge increased slowly. Modern man began to transform this world when he began to mine the hidden veins of knowledge systematically.

  William Wickenden

  Faith, Men, Essence

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• I had to make a living. I was a married man. I had a wife. I had a home. I had children. I had to make a living. That's the common pursuit of every man.

  Jack Kirby

  Children, Home, Men

  Interview with Gary Groth, www.tcj.com. February 1990.

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• The pursuit of knowledge is but a course between two ignorances, as human life is itself only a wayfaring from grave to grave.

  Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet

  Ignorance, Two, Life Is

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• Passion is the relentless pursuit of those life-enhancing activities or experiences that give our souls meaning.

  Janet Hagberg

  Passion, Giving, Soul

  Janet O. Hagberg (2002). “Real Power: Stages of Personal Power in Organizations, Third Edition”, p.300, Sheffield Publishing

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• I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.

  Anne Sweeney

  Thinking, People, Important

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• This is one of my big things of creative pursuits. You have your idea you want to do, but then you got to figure out what does this thing want to be? You got to let it lead you a little.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Ideas, Creative, Want

  Roundtable conversation, www.slashfilm.com. November 3, 2007.

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• I wouldn't do anything else [besides acting], for sure. If I did, it would be music or some other pursuit in this same area. I have been acting and playing music since childhood. It's what I enjoyed most.

  Dermot Mulroney

  Childhood, Acting, Playing Music

  Source: collider.com

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• Up until the middle of the nineteenth century, men of science were all believers. Most of the great early English naturalists were also ministers; they were the only ones who had education and leisure for such pursuits. Darwin himself almost became a minister. God's power was always thought to be most easily and obviously revealed in the majestic works of nature.

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Men, Leisure, Majestic

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• I agree we have enough books that attempt to explain why God allows suffering, presumably in a way that lets God off the hook. And while much smarter men than I have constructed elaborate systems in this pursuit, they are by definition exercises in speculation.

  Tullian Tchividjian

  Letting Go, Book, Exercise

  Source: www.lifeisstory.com

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• I love idyllic places and the kind of suspension of history they offer. But noble beauty is not enough. One must complicate the picture, because there's nowhere to "escape" to on the planet in pursuit of a hermetic pastoralism or a redemptive wilderness sublime.

  Michael Light

  Sublime, Idyllic, Noble

  Interview with Lawrence Weschler, believermag.com. November 1, 2010.

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• Why do you increase your bonds? Take hold of your life before your light grows dark and you seek help and do not find it. This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Christian, Dark, Light

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• There is no "playing with truth" in the Charkha programme, for satyagraha is not predominantly civil disobedience but a quiet and irresistible pursuit of Truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Quiet, Satyagraha, Irresistible

  Mahatma Gandhi (1927). “Young India, 1924-1926”

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• Truth and nonviolence are both the means and the end, and given the right type of men, the legislatures can be the means of achieving the concrete pursuit of truth and nonviolence.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Mean, Men, Achieve

  Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Gandhiji Expects: What the Father of the Nation Expected of People's Representatives”

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• What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Truth, Cost, Life Is

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Homage to the Departed”

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• Excess consumption doesn't make people happy. We can continue to provide for our needs, but we can't continue the endless pursuit of ever more consumer goods. There is no energy source that can provide enough consumer goods to meet our human and emotional needs; there never has been, and that's why it's been such a fruitless pursuit.

  Tim DeChristopher

  Emotional, People, Energy

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• The genius of capitalism lies in its ability to make self-interest serve the wider interest. The potential of a big financial return for innovation unleashes a broad set of talented people in pursuit of many different discoveries. This system, driven by self-interest, is responsible for the incredible innovations that have improved so many lives.

  Bill Gates

  Business, Lying, Discovery

  "A New Approach to Capitalism in the 21st Century". Bill Gates' speech at World Economic Forum 2008 in Davos, Switzerland, news.microsoft.com. January 24, 2008.

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• A college which does not confer the knowledge of the Spiritual Reality to the students who are engaged in the pursuit of various material studies, is as barren as the sky without the moon, or a heart without peace, or a nation without reference to law.

  Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Educational, Heart

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• If we value the pursuit of knowledge, we must be free to follow wherever that search may lead us. The free mind is no barking dog to be tethered on a ten-foot chain.

  Adlai Stevenson I

  Dog, Teacher, Freedom

  Speech at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, October 8, 1952.

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• In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.

  Martha Beck

  Peace, Practice, Needs

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.9, Harmony

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• Acting is usually regarded as a wholly narcissistic pursuit but there really is a hunger in me to unravel the human condition.

  Jason Isaacs

  Acting, Narcissistic, Hunger

  "Jason Isaacs: 'I like being anonymous'". Interview with Stuart Jeffries, www.theguardian.com. June 19, 2011.

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• It is an endless and frivolous Pursuit to act by any other Rule than the Care of satisfying our own Minds in what we do

  Richard Steele

  Mind, Care, Endless

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1753). “The Spectator”, p.23

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