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• The High Divide, a novel about a family in peril, is haunting and tense but leavened by considerable warmth and humanity. Lin Enger writes with durable grace about a man’s quest for redemption and the human capacity for forgiveness.

  Benjamin Percy

  Writing, Men, Grace

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• It comes down to this: black people were stripped of our identities when we were brought here, and it's been a quest since then to define who we are.

  Spike Lee

  People, Black, Identity

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• There is a book yearning to come out of me: about how we can build the new collaboration economy, and the role of 'openness' in our quest for efficient use of resources and as a driver of innovation.

  Robin Chase

  Book, Innovation, Collaboration

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• Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and wonderfully well written story of one man's quest to solve a problem no one thought could be solved: the scourge of inner city gang violence This is a vitally important work that has the potential to usher in a new era in policing.

  John Seabrook

  Philosophy, Men, Crime Novels

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• My kids listen to everything because I listen to everything, so it's not far-fetched to hear them playing Metallica and then playing A Tribe Called Quest or N.W.A.

  Big Boi

  Kids, Tribes, Metallica

  "Outkast Is A State Of Mind". Interview with Emma Brown, www.interviewmagazine.com. December 8, 2012.

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• I continue to hope and believe that the best stories and photographs are yet to occur. My quest for them will certainly require that I keep my head up and my eyes and heart open as I walk down the street.

  Peter Turnley

  Believe, Heart, Eye

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• We have won an armistice on a single battlefield, not peace in our world. We may not now relax our guard nor cease our quest.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  War, Our World, Relax

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• Perhaps your quest to be part of building something great will not fall in your business life. But find it somewhere. If not in corporate life, then perhaps in making your church great. If not there, then perhaps a nonprofit, or a community organization, or a class you teach. Get involved in something that you care so much about that you want to make it the greatest it can possibly be, not because of what you will get, but just because it can be done.

  James C. Collins

  Fall, Class, Organization

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• Once a new social stage appears in a culture, it will spread its instructional codes and life-priority messages throughout that culture's surface-level expressions: religion, economic and political arrangements, psychological and anthro-pological theories, and views of human nature, our future destiny, globalization, and even architectural patterns and sports preferences. We all live in flow states; there is always new wine, always old wineskins. We, indeed, find ourselves pursuing a neverending quest.

  Don Edward Beck

  Sports, Wine, Destiny

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• He couldn't say it. He couldn't tell her how much she had come to mean to him. She could destroy him with her rejection. If she had feigned her feelings for him - if he'd bought into her lies and her quest for freedom... He wasn't sure what he would do. He could hurt her.

  CJ Roberts

  Hurt, Lying, Mean

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• To find oneself living in an age of doubt is not such a curse. There is a kind of reverence in undertaking the quest for truth, even before the first scrap has been found.

  Deepak Chopra

  Doubt, Age, Firsts

  Deepak Chopra (2011). “Unconditional Life: Discovering the Power to Fulfill Your Dreams”, p.81, Bantam

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• We regard our living together not as an unfortunate mishap warranting endless competition among us but as a deliberate act of God to make us a community of brothers and sisters jointly involved in the quest for a composite answer to the varied problems of life. Hence in all we do we always place man first and hence all our action is usually joint community oriented action rather than the individualism.

  Steven Biko

  Brother, Men, Community

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• Just as in habiliments it is a sign of weakness to wish to make oneself noticeable by some peculiar and unaccustomed fashion, so, in language, the quest for new-fangled phrases and little-known words comes from a puerile and pedantic ambition.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Fashion, Ambition, Wish

  Michel de Montaigne (1925). “The essays of Montaigne”

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• Men do not know the natural infirmity of their mind: it does nothing but ferret and quest, and keeps incessantly whirling around, building up and becoming entangled in its own work, like silkworms, and is suffocated in it. A mouse in a pitch barrel...thinks it notices from a distance some sort of glimmer of imaginary light and truth; but while running toward it, it is crossed by so many difficulties and obstacles, and diverted by so many new quests, that it strays from the road, bewildered.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Running, Distance, Men

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• Of all the nations in the world, the United States was built in nobody's image. It was the land of the unexpected, of unbounded hope, of ideals, of quest for an unknown perfection. It is all the more unfitting that we should offer ourselves in images. And all the more fitting that the images which we make wittingly or unwittingly to sell America to the world should come back to haunt and curse us.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Land, America, Perfection

  Daniel J. Boorstin (1978). “The Image”

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• The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Discovery, Two, Different

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• Clearly, some time ago makers and consumers of American junk food passed jointly through some kind of sensibility barrier in the endless quest for new taste sensations. Now they are a little like those desperate junkies who have tried every known drug and are finally reduced to mainlining toilet bowl cleanser in an effort to get still higher.

  Bill Bryson

  Food, Effort, Drug

  Bill Bryson (1989). “The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America”, p.25, VNR AG

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• The real demon is success-the anxieties engendered by this quest are relentless, degrading, corroding. What is worse, there is no end to this escalation of desire.

  Marya Mannes

  Success, Real, Anxiety

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• Invade me now, my ruthless friend,
  
  And make me cower in the dark.
  
  Remind me that I'm all alone
  
  And draw upon my face your mark.
  
  How is it that you capture me,
  
  When all my thoughts deny your force?
  
  Is it the reptile in my brain
  
  That lets your terror run its course?
  
  
  
  Baseless Fear undoes us all
  
  Despite our quest for lofty goals.
  
  We would-be Galahads don't die,
  
  Fear just freezes all our souls.
  
  It keeps us mute when feeling love,
  
  Reminding us what we might lose.
  
  And if by chance we meet success,
  
  Fear tells us which safe route to choose.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Running, Fear, Dark

  Arthur C. Clarke, Gentry Lee (2012). “Rama Revealed”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• Life is not primarily a quest for pleasure, as Freud believed, or a quest for power, as Alfred Adler taught, but a quest for meaning. The greatest task for any person is to find meaning in his or her own life.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Tasks, Taught, Life Is

  "Optimism Or Overconfidence?" by Blythe McGarvie, www.huffingtonpost.com. June 5, 2010.

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• There is what I would call the hero journey, the night sea journey, the hero quest, where the individual is going to bring forth in his life something that was never beheld before.

  Joseph Campbell

  Hero, Night, Journey

  Joseph Campbell, Phil Cousineau, Stuart L. Brown (1990). “The Hero's Journey: Joseph Campbell on His Life and Work”, p.76, New World Library

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• At the core of Fashletics you have a woman who is committed to exploring and expressing the true meaning of strength from the inside out and that will never change.  I am honored to serve a community that has proven to me over and over again that it wants to be a part of my quest to inspire positive change through physical means.

  Sarah Wilson

  Mean, Community, Inspire

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• In the Phaedrus, Plato argued that the new arrival of writing would revolutionize culture for the worst. He suggested that it would substitute reminiscence for thought and mechanical learning for the true dialect of the living quest for truth by discourse and conversation.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Plato, Writing, Media

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• The quest of the absolute leads into the four-dimensional world.

  Arthur Eddington

  World, Four, Absolutes

  Arthur Eddington (2012). “The Nature of the Physical World: Gifford Lectures (1927)”, p.26, Cambridge University Press

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• I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.

  Werner Herzog

  Thinking, Age, Literature

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