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• I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits.

  Mark Gatiss

  Gay, Men, Class

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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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• It was the saying of a great man, that if we could trace our descents, we should find all slaves to come from princes, and all princes from slaves; and fortune has turned all things topsy-turvy in a long series of revolutions; beside, for a man to spend his life in pursuit of a title, that serves only when he dies to furnish out an epitaph, is below a wise man's business.

  Seneca the Younger

  Wise, Men, Long

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• In the ardor of pursuit men soon forget the goal from which they start.

  Friedrich Schiller

  Men, Goal, Forget

  Friedrich Schiller (2015). “The Works of Frederick Schiller: Top Classic of German”, p.1158, 谷月社

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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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• I wish popularity, but it is that popularity which follows; not that which is run after. It is that popularity which, sooner or later, never fails to do justice to the pursuit of noble ends, by noble means.

  William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield

  Running, Mean, Justice

  "Case of John Wilkes", 19 How. St. Tr. 1112, 1113; 8. C. 4 Burr. Part IV. 2562, 1763.

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• The excellence and inspiration of truth is in the pursuit, not in the mere having of it. The pursuit of all truth is a kind of gymnastics; a man swings from one truth with higher strength to gain another. The continual glory is the possibility opening before us.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Truth, Inspiration, Gymnastics

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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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• One has to devote oneself to a particular pursuit. To be successful at anything, you have to make a total commitment to it.

  Donald Johanson

  Commitment, Successful, Particular

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

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• Leadership means bringing people together in pursuit of a common cause, developing a plan to achieve it, and staying with it until the goal is achieved.

  William J. Clinton

  Mean, People, Goal

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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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• Finally, everybody agrees that no one pursuit can be successfully followed by a man who is preoccupied with many things-eloquence cannot, nor the liberal studies-since the mind, when distracted, takes in nothing very deeply, but rejects everything that is, as it were, crammed into it. There is nothing the busy man is less busied with than living: there is nothing that is harder to learn.

  Seneca the Younger

  Men, Mind, Study

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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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• Whilst all the world is in pursuit of power, culture corrects the theory of success.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Success, Culture, World

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.363

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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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• The art of governing [focusing] the passions is more useful, and more important, than many things in the search and pursuit of which we spend our days. Without this art, riches and health, and skill and knowledge, will give us little satisfaction; and whatsoever else we be, we can be neither happy, nor wise, nor good.

  John Jortin

  Wise, Art, Passion

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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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• Genial manners are good, and power of accommodation to any circumstance, but the high prize of life, the crowning fortune of a man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit, which finds him in employment and happiness, -- whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statutes, or songs. I doubt not this was the meaning of Socrates, when he pronounced artists the only truly wise, as being actually, not apparently so.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Wise, Song, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). “Essays and Lectures”, p.1090, Library of America

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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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• July 4, 1776 was the historic day on which the representatives of three millions of people vocalized Concord, and Lexington, and Bunker Hill, which gave notice to the world that they proposed to establish an independent nation on the theory that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Independent, Men, Pursuit Of Happiness

  "Equal Rights". Speech by Calvin Coolidge, en.wikisource.org. 1920.

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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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