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• I am suggesting that we spend a little less time in idleness, in the fruitless pursuit of watching inane and empty television programs. Time so utilized can be put to better advantage, and the consequences will be wonderful.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Television, Littles, Wonderful

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• The leisure time of children must be constructively directed to wholesome, positive pursuits. Too much time viewing television can be destructive...It is estimated that growing children today watch television over twenty-five hours per week.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Children, Growing, Today

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• What sets human beings apart from animals is not the pursuit of happiness, which occurs all across the natural world, but the pursuit of meaning, which is unique to humans.

  Roy Baumeister

  Animal, Pursuit Of Happiness, Unique

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• Mastery requires endurance. Mastery, a word we don’t use often, is not the equivalent of what we might consider its cognate—perfectionism—an inhuman aim motivated by a concern with how others view us. Mastery is also not the same as success—an event-based victory based on a peak point, a punctuated moment in time. Mastery is not merely a commitment to a goal, but to a curved-line, constant pursuit.

  Sarah Lewis

  Commitment, Often Is, Views

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.7, Simon and Schuster

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• I’ve always said I didn’t have a Plan B in life. I was in pursuit of my dream from the very
  beginning. It’s all about desire and passion. At all costs.

  Mario Andretti

  Dream, Passion, Desire

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

  George W. Romney

  Strong, Men, Difficult

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• Just as invasion is the true and tried weapon in the hands of capital against the class struggle, so on the other hand the fearless pursuit of the class struggle has always proven the most effective preventative of foreign invasions.

  Karl Liebknecht

  Struggle, Hands, Class

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• If in our Saturday pursuits we're far from God's presence, we're not in very good shape to worship Him on Sunday.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Sunday, Shapes, Worship

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• The purpose of Sabbath is not simply to rejuvenate yourself in order to do more production, nor is it the pursuit of pleasure. The purpose of Sabbath is to enjoy your God, life in general, what you have accomplished in the world through his help, and the freedom you have in the gospel-the freedom from slavery to any material object or human expectation. The Sabbath is a sign of the hope that we have in the world to come.

  Timothy Keller

  Order, Expectations, Purpose

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• Meditation is not the pursuit of an invisible path leading to some imaginal bliss. The meditative mind is seeing, watching, listening, without the word, without comment, without opinion, attentive to the movement of life in all its relationships throughout the day.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Meditation, Listening, Mind

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• Unfortunately, many people do not feel comfortable with freedom. They must find for themselves a leader, a guru, or a mentor to take over the direction of their spiritual lives and who will tell them what to do and how to think. A guide or a counselor is understandable, as in sports or music or in any pursuit, but that is not enough. Many mistakenly believe they have to be led each step of the way.

  Joseph Girzone

  Sports, Spiritual, Freedom

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• When I think about sanctification, a couple things immediately pop into my head. One is how slow it actually is. I think everybody wants the silver-bullet, the thing that makes sanctification move like a superhighway rather than the dirt path that it is. The other is that, by in large, the greatest single asset in ongoing sanctification is a serious pursuit of joy in the face of Jesus Christ.

  Matt Chandler

  Jesus, Couple, Moving

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• There is something self-defeating in the too-conscious pursuit of pleasure.

  Max Eastman

  Self, Pleasure, Conscious

  Max Eastman (1948). “Enjoyment of living”

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• If we are deeply moved by the sight of his love for us, it detaches our hearts from other would-be saviors. We stop trying to redeem ourselves through our pursuits and relationships, because we are already redeemed. We stop trying to make others into saviors, because we have a Savior.

  Timothy Keller

  Heart, Sight, Trying

  Timothy Keller (2009). “Counterfeit Gods: The Empty Promises of Money, Sex, and Power, and the Only Hope that Matters”, p.45, Penguin

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• The continual pursuit of meanings-wider, clearer, more negotiable, more articulate meanings- is philosophy.

  Susanne Katherina Langer

  Philosophy, Philosopher

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• I think the more stability a person has, the more they can follow esoteric or intellectual pursuits.

  Elaine Equi

  Thinking, Intellectual, Esoteric

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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• Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.

  Carl Sagan

  Thoughtful, Keys, Civilization

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Broca's Brain: Reflections on the Romance of Science”, p.172, Ballantine Books

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• The pursuit of Fashion is the attempt of the middle class to co-opt tragedy. In adopting the clothing, speech, and personal habits of those in straitened, dangerous, or pitiful circumstances, the middle class seeks to have what it feels to be the exigent and nonequivocal experiences had by those it emulates.

  David Mamet

  Fashion, Class, Tragedy

  David Mamet (1986). “Writing in restaurants”, Viking Adult

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• One of the most dangerously vicious circles menacing the continued existence of all mankind arises through that grim striving for the highest possible position within the ranked order, in other words, the reckless pursuit of power which combines with an insatiable greed of neurotic proportions that the results of acquired power confer.

  Konrad Lorenz

  Power, Order, Circles

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• Human life is limited, but knowledge is limitless. To drive the limited in pursuit of the limitless is fatal; and to presume that one really knows is fatal indeed!

  Zhuangzi

  Knowledge, Life Is, Limitless

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• Today, society is sacrificing love, values and dharma in its pursuit of materialistic gains.

  Mata Amritanandamayi

  Spiritual, Sacrifice, Today

  Twitter post from Jun 06, 2013

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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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• Food is "everyday"-it has to be, or we would not survive for long. But food is never just something to eat. It is something to find or hunt or cultivate first of all; for most of human history we have spent a much longer portion of our lives worrying about food, and plotting, working, and fighting to obtain it, than we have in any other pursuit. As soon as we can count on a food supply (and so take food for granted), and not a moment sooner, we start to civilize ourselves.

  Margaret Visser

  Food, Fighting, Long

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• I've always embraced failure as a noble pursuit. It allows you to be anti whatever anyone wants you to be, and to break all the rules.

  Malcolm Mclaren

  Noble, Want, Break

  "This much I know" by Malcolm McLaren, www.theguardian.com. November 15, 2008.

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• The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.

  Bob Brown

  Eternity, Here And Now, Prerogative

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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