Pursuit Quotes - Page 23

• The pursuit of purity is not about the suppression of lust, but about the reorientation of one's life to a larger goal.

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer

  Goal, Lust, Purity

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• Government can ensure that we share schools and streets and lunch counters and buses and elevators and theaters, but let us never forget that only God can give us the power to love each other and to respect each other and to share life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.

  Mike Huckabee

  Love, Life, Happiness

  "Huckabee takes it to church on Sunday, addresses racial tensions" By Elizabeth Landers, www.cnn.com. July 19, 2015.

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• Power relations between men and women must change profoundly, men must be partners in the pursuit of gender equality, in their decision-making roles, as heads of state, CEOs, religious and cultural leaders, and as partners and parents.

  Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka

  Change, Religious, Men

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• Every true artist does feel, consciously or unconsciously, that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil. In other words, the natural mystic does know that there is something there, something behind the clouds or within the trees; but he believes that the pursuit of beauty is the way to find it; that imagination is a sort of incantation that can call it up.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Believe, Artist, Clouds

  "The Everlasting Man". Book by G. K. Chesterton, V: Man and Mythologies, 1925.

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• [...] homosexuality should be seen in broader terms: as arrested development caused by confusion over sexual identity, resulting in inability to bond permanently with a member of the opposite sex and (usually) establish a family. The main symptom of this disorder is the pursuit of impersonal sex for its own sake (i.e. promiscuity).

  Henry Makow

  Sex, Opposites, Confusion

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• There are two kinds of intelligence in this world. People who are Monopoly smart and people who are Trivial Pursuit smart... If you're starting your own business, don't even talk to me. But If you need to know who the lead singer of Kajagoogoo is, I'm your guy. His name is Limahl, by the way.

  Christian Finnegan

  Smart, Names, Two

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• Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs.

  Albert Einstein

  Pigs, Suitable

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• Do not waste this life in vain pursuits.

  Isaac of Nineveh

  Waste, Vain, This Life

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• The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Pursuit Of Happiness, World, Misery

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.144, Regent College Publishing

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• When anaesthetics were invented they were thought to be wicked as being an attempt to thwart God's will. Insanity was thought to be due to diabolic possession, and it was believed that demons inhabiting a madman could be driven out by inflicting pain upon him, and so making them uncomfortable. In pursuit of this opinion, lunatics were treated for years on end with systematic and conscientious brutality.

  Bertrand Russell

  Pain, Years, Insanity

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “Bertrand Russell's Best”, p.107, Routledge

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• I feel more voluntary about my pleasures and pains than the average American who has his needs dictated by Madison Avenue (my projections, of course). I feel sustained, excited, and constantly growing in my spiritual and intellectual pursuits.

  Duane Elgin

  Spiritual, Pain, Average

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• We stand today at a unique and extraordinary moment. The crisis in the Persian Gulf , as grave as it is, also offers a rare opportunity to move toward an historic period of cooperation. Out of these troubled times, our fifth objective - a new world order - can emerge: a new era - freer from the threat of terror, stronger in the pursuit of justice, and more secure in the quest for peace. An era in which the nations of the world, East and West, North and South, can prosper and live in harmony.

  George H. W. Bush

  Moving, Unique, Opportunity

  George H. W. Bush, Brent Scowcroft (2011). “A World Transformed”, p.370, Vintage

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• My interest in science was always essentially limited to the study of principles.... That I have published so little is due to this same circumstance, as the great need to grasp principles has caused me to spend most of my time on fruitless pursuits.

  Albert Einstein

  Principles, Needs, Littles

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.379, Princeton University Press

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• One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dollars, Engaged, Pursued

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2461, Delphi Classics

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• Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

  Gore Vidal

  Desire, States, Fragments

  Gore Vidal (1995). “Palimpsest: a memoir”

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• It's one of the greatest honors I could ever imagine - to be able to represent my country and to be able to wear "USA" on my back. It's an incredible honor. It's an accomplishment of the past four year but of a life of dreaming and working hard and doing everything I can in pursuit of this goal.

  Elana Meyers

  Dream, Country, Past

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• I always believed that my platform would be speaking to young women that were teenagers that had had their babies and were trying to make it as single moms and still have hope and passions and pursuit of great things in their lives.

  Shari Wiedmann

  Mom, Baby, Teenager

  "Actress Shari Rigby talks about her “Beautifully Flawed” life". Interview with John W. Kennedy, www.beliefnet.com. March 2015.

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• I try to learn something from every character I take on. I try to better myself personally from it and Red allowed me to go ahead and accept what I did. Even though I had passion driving me, I still felt a little guilty that I gave up all the businesses in the pursuit of happiness.

  Drew Waters

  Passion, Character, Pursuit Of Happiness

  Source: www.beliefnet.com

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• A Christian cannot help being free, because in the pursuit and attainment of his object, no one can either hinder or retard him.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Christian, Being Free, Helping

  Leo Tolstoy (2015). “What is Art?: "The Kingdom of God is Within You"”, p.236, eKitap Projesi

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• The pursuit of science, the study of the great works, the value of free inquiry, in short, the very idea of living the life of the mind - yes, these formative and abiding principles of higher education in America had their first and firmest advocate, and their greatest embodiment, in a tall, fair-headed, friendly man who watched this university take form from the mountainside where he lived, the university whose founding he called a crowning achievement to along and well-spent life.

  Ronald Reagan

  Live Life, Men, Ideas

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1991). “Ronald Reagan”

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• Liberalism should be found not striving to spread bureaucracy but striving to set bounds to it. True liberalism seeks all legitimate freedom first in the confident belief that without such freedom the pursuit of all other blessings and benefits is vain. That belief is the foundation of all American progress, political as well as economic.

  Herbert Hoover

  Blessing, Political, Progress

  United States. President (1929-1933 : Hoover), Herbert Hoover (1974). “Herbert Hoover: Containing the Public Messages, Speeches, and Statements of the President”

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• The only proper, moral purpose of a government is to protect man's rights, which means: to protect him from physical violence - to protect his right to his own life, to his own liberty, to his own property and to the pursuit of his own happiness. Without property rights, no other rights are possible.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Men, Rights

  Ayn Rand (1964). “The Virtue of Selfishness”, p.30, Penguin

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• It changes your life, the pursuit of truth, if you know that you have tried to find the truth and gone past the first apparent truth towards the real truth. It's very, it's very exciting.

  Ben Bradlee

  Real, Past, Gone

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• If you have done something once, you can do it again or you can do it better. The beauty is the pursuit of the limit, not the limit itself. At least that's what I hope people realize.

  Ashton Eaton

  People, Done, Limits

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• The pursuit of enlightenment is for the purpose of the world, not merely for the purpose of the individual. Practices for enlightenment must lead to action in the world.

  Bernie Glassman

  Practice, Enlightenment, Purpose

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