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• "Science," of course, replaced "God" as a guiding concept for many people after Darwin. Or, really, the two were rolled up into a sticky ball. To some degree this was mindless worship of a miracle future, the pursuit of which has landed us in the fix we now inhabit.

  Bill McKibben

  Future, Two, People

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• What is it that's taken hold of me, for me to carry on like this in relentless pursuit of something beyond my powers?

  Claude Monet

  Taken, Relentless, Relentless Pursuit

  Claude Monet (2014). “Monet by Himself: Paintings, Drawings, Pastels, Letters”, Chartwell

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• We should be active leaders in the fight for civil liberties which adequately reflect present social realities. Furthermore the left as a movement must appropriate the green agenda. Sustainability has to become the foundation of all our pursuits. This movement is my dream and vision. The left remains strong in Malta, but stronger it will become if we have the courage to unite and dream.

  Joseph Muscat

  Dream, Strong, Fighting

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• Spiritual intelligence is the capacity to conduct our life in such a way that it reflects deep philosophical and metaphysical understanding of reality and of ourselves discovered through personal experience during systematic spiritual pursuit.

  Stanislav Grof

  Spiritual, Philosophical, Reality

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• Were not this desire of fame very strong, the difficulty of obtaining it, and the danger of losing it when obtained, would be sufficient to deter a man from so vain a pursuit.

  Joseph Addison

  Strong, Men, Desire

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.317

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• New York is essentially national in interest, position, pursuits. No one thinks of the place as belonging to a particular state, but to the United States.

  James F. Cooper

  New York, Thinking, United States

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• The life of Zen begins, therefore, in a disillusion with the pursuit of goals which do not really exist the good without the bad, the gratification of a self which is no more than an idea, and the morrow which never comes.

  Alan Watts

  Self, Ideas, Goal

  Alan Watts (1989). “The way of Zen”, Vintage

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• Truth is a pursuit, it's a quest. And proof is certainly in the pudding in this particular instance, because the film, and the evidence accumulated in making the film, led to this man's release from prison. And that's hardly ever happened, if it's happened at all, in any other film that I can think of.

  Errol Morris

  Men, Thinking, Pudding

  From 'Don’t Look Back' to 'After Innocence': A New Book Explores Documentary Filmmaking with Directo, www.indiewire.com. August 25, 2005.

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• It is the close observation of little things which is the secret of success in business, in art, in science, and in every pursuit in life. Human knowledge is but an accumulation of small facts made by successive generations of men--the little bits of knowledge and experience carefully treasured up by them growing at length into a mighty pyramid.

  Samuel Smiles

  Art, Men, Pyramids

  Samuel Smiles (1861). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Character and Conduct”, p.100

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• Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home.

  Ted Strickland

  Home, Risk, Pioneers

  "Ted Strickland Speech Text: Read The Former Governor’s DNC Remarks". www.huffingtonpost.com. September 04, 2012.

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• Avoid trivial pursuits. You are a child of God, destined for glory, and called to do great things in His Name. Do not waste your life on hobbies, sports, and other recreational pursuits. Do not throw away the precious moments of your life on entertainment, movies, and video games. Though some of these things can properly have a 'small place' in the Christian's life, we must be careful not to give undue attention to temporal and fruitless activities. Do not waste your life. Employ the time of your youth in developing the character and skills necessary to be a useful servant of God.

  Paul Washer

  Faith, Sports, Christian

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• Maybe this is a utopian view of art but I do believe that art can function as a vehicle, that it isn't just a cultural pursuit, something that happens in art galleries. Unless art is linked to experience and the fear and joy of that, it becomes mere icing on the cake.

  Antony Gormley

  Art, Believe, Cake

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• The beauty and wonders of nature are as alluring as the pursuit of Art, and made of me a landscape painter.

  Walter J. Phillips

  Art, Landscape, Wonder

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• Extremism is the pursuit of the presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Vices, Affair, Virtue

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• Faith I have, in myself, in humanity, in the worthwhileness of the pursuits in entertainment for the masses. But wide awake, not blind faith, moves me. My operations are based on experience, thoughtful observation and warm fellowship with my neighbors at home and around the world.

  Walt Disney

  Dream, Moving, Home

  "The Gospel According to Disney : Faith, Trust, and Pixie Dust". Book by Mark I. Pinsky, 2004.

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• Passive resistance is a sport for gentleman (and ladies)-just like the pursuit of war, a heroic enterprise for the ruling classes but a grievous burden on the rest.

  Kenneth Kaunda

  Sports, War, Class

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• By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy-indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction.

  William Osler

  Honesty, Integrity, Character

  Sir William Osler (2001). “Osler's "a Way of Life" and Other Addresses, with Commentary and Annotations”, p.369, Duke University Press

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• Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life.

  Brigham Young

  Pyramids, Serious, Recreation

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• Of all the pursuits open to men, the search for wisdom is most perfect, more sublime, more profitable, and more full of joy.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Philosophy, Men, Perfect

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• Art is a course in personal development that has no reliable diploma and no known end. The pursuit of art instructs in beauty as well as ugliness, fantasy as well as common sense. Art levels souls and baffles brains. Art softens pain because it is pain. Art gives joy because it is joy.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Pain, Common Sense

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• No human pursuit achieves dignity until it can be called work.

  Beryl Markham

  Work, Dignity, Achieve

  Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.308, Open Road Media

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• In the foundation and development of a successful enterprise there must be a single-minded pursuit of financial profit.

  C. Northcote Parkinson

  Business, Successful, Foundation

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• Some are slaves of ambition or money, but others are interested in understanding life itself. These give themselves the name of philosophers , and they value the contemplation and discovery of nature beyond all other pursuits.

  Pythagoras

  Philosophy, Ambition, Discovery

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• The love of science, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of science, in the best of the Aryan races do seem to correspond in a remarkable way to the love of conduct, and the energy and honesty in the pursuit of conduct, in the best of the Semitic.

  Matthew Arnold

  Honesty, Science, Men

  Matthew Arnold, Thomas Burnett Smart (1903). “The Works of Matthew Arnold”

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• The routine of custom tends to deaden even scientific inquiry; it stands in the way of discovery and of the active scientific worker. For discovery and inquiry are synonymous as an occupation. Science is a pursuit, not a coming into possession of the immutable; new theories as points of view are more prized than discoveries that quantitatively increase the store on hand.

  John Dewey

  Thinking, Discovery, Views

  John Dewey (2012). “Reconstruction in Philosophy”, p.10, Courier Corporation

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