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• Even our recreation was scheduled. There was no time to look for birds or wander into the nearby woods. We were put into teams and sent into violent pursuit of a helpless ball.

  Gloria Whelan

  Team, Bird, Balls

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• Luxury is...to be able to take control of one's life, health, and the pursuit of happiness in a way that is joyful.

  Andre Leon Talley

  Inspiration, Pursuit Of Happiness, Luxury

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• Whether young or old, rich or poor, learned or unlearned, should presume to dispense the mysteries of Christ without the strongest of all possible reasons for doing so - the imperative, invincible call of God. No one is to show cause why he ought not to be a Minister: he is to show cause why he should be a Minister. His call to the sacred profession is not the absence of a call to any other pursuit; it is direct, immediate, powerful, to this very department of labour. He is not here because he can be nowhere else, but he is nowhere else because he must be here.

  James Henley Thornwell

  Christian, Powerful, Rich Or Poor

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• Capote, of course, addressed very similar themes to Good Night and Good Luck. Both films are about determined journalists defying obstacles in a relentless pursuit of the truth. Needless to say, both are period pieces.

  Jon Stewart

  Good Night, Good Luck, Pieces

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• Civilization is social order promoting cultural creation. Four elements constitute it: economic provision, political organization, moral tradition, and the pursuit of knowledge and the arts. It begins where chaos and insecurity end. For when fear is overcome, curiosity and constructiveness are free, and man passes by natural impulse towards the understanding and embellishment of life.

  Will Durant

  Art, Men, Order

  Will Durant (2011). “Our Oriental Heritage: The Story of Civilization”, p.55, Simon and Schuster

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• Love' is the name for our pursuit of wholeness, for our desire to be complete.

  Plato

  Love Is, Names, Desire

  Plato, C. D. C. Reeve “Plato on Love”, Hackett Publishing

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• My central arms control objective has been to reduce substantially and ultimately to eliminate nuclear weapons and rid the world of the nuclear threat. The prevention of the spread of nuclear explosives is to additional countries is an indispensable part of our efforts to meet this objective. I intend to continue my pursuit of this goal with untiring determination and a profound sense of personal commitment.

  Ronald Reagan

  Country, Determination, Commitment

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• Every mental pursuit takes its reality and worth from the ardour of the pursuer.

  John Keats

  Reality

  John Keats (2002). “Selected Letters”, p.69, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Everything that's bad for you catches on too quickly in America, because that's the easiest thing to get people to invest in, the pursuits that are easy and destructive, the ones that bring out the least positive aspects of people.

  Gil Scott-Heron

  America, People, Easy

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• There are periods that we forget that in the pursuit of fruit, that if we just abide in Him, then fruitfulness is a guarantee.

  Francis Chan

  Guarantees, Fruit, Forget

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• How we use our leisure is equally as important to our joy as our occupational pursuits. Proper use of leisure requires discriminating judgment. Our leisure provides opportunity for renewal of spirit, mind, and body. It is a time for worship, for family, for service, for study, for wholesome recreation. It brings harmony into our life.

  J. Richard Clarke

  Opportunity, Pyramids, Joy

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• Does the pursuit of truth give you as much pleasure as before? Surely it is not the knowing but the learning, not the possessing but the acquiring, not the being-there but the getting there that afford the greatest satisfaction. If I have exhausted something, I leave it in order to go again into the dark. Thus is that insatiable man so strange: when he has completed a structure it is not in order to dwell in it comfortably, but to start another.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Dark, Men, Order

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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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• Iran's continued pursuit of nuclear weapons, support for international terrorist organizations, and abhorrent human rights practices pose one of the greatest threats to global security.

  Allyson Schwartz

  Rights, Iran, Practice

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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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• The pursuit of mastery is an ever-onward almost.

  Sarah Lewis

  Motivational, Mastery

  Sarah Lewis (2014). “The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery”, p.20, Simon and Schuster

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• Liberal relativism has its roots in the natural right tradition of tolerance or in the notion that everyone has a natural right to the pursuit of happiness as he understands happiness; but in itself it is a seminary of intolerance.

  Leo Strauss

  Pursuit Of Happiness, Roots, Tolerance

  Leo Strauss (1953). “Natural Right and History”, p.6, University of Chicago Press

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• Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation , followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.

  David Blaine

  Perseverance, Simple, Practice

  Interview with Adam Kimmel, www.interviewmagazine.com. April 27, 2010.

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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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• The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

  George W. Romney

  Strong, Men, Difficult

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• Without discipline in spiritual pursuits, the central nervous system doesn't have a chance to adjust and grow with the increased demand. It would be like putting a high voltage into a small bulb—it is bound to explode.

  Sivananda Radha Saraswati

  Spiritual, Discipline, Would Be

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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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