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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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• My biggest kick comes from the individual fans I run into. Middle-aged men ask me when we're going to do more Johnny Quest cartoons.

  Joseph Barbera

  Running, Men, Cartoon

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Two things are going on at the same time with the flattening of the world: The relentless quest for efficiency is squeezing some of the fat out of life.

  Thomas Friedman

  Two, World, Efficiency

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• Death or success is what I quest, cause I'm fearless.

  Tupac Shakur

  Death, Fearless, Causes

  Song: The Streetz R Deathrow

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• ... circles of trust ... are a rare form of community - one that supports rather than supplants the individual quest for integrity - that is rooted in two basic beliefs. First, we all have an inner teacher whose guidance is more reliable than anything we can get from a doctrine, ideology, collective belief system, institution, or leader. Second, we all need other people to invite, amplify, and help us discern the inner teacher's voice.

  Parker J. Palmer

  Teacher, Integrity, Circles

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• A Tribe Called Quest was one of those things where it was supposed to be about growth. When I say 'growth,' I don't just mean with our sound or our product, but Tribe was supposed to grow as individuals.

  Phife Dawg

  Mean, Growth, Sound

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• I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

  Joely Fisher

  Delicious

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

  Max Levchin

  Games, People, Challenges

  "Davos Interviews: Max Levchin Says Slide Now Makes Almost All Of Its Money From Virtual Goods". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 1, 2010.

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• At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.

  William Rehnquist

  Heart, Expression, Ideas

  "Hustler Magazine, Inc. v. Falwell, 485 U.S. 46". The U.S. Supreme Court case, www.law.cornell.edu. February 24, 1988.

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• Pleasure is the rock which most young people split upon; they launch out with crowded sails in quest of it, but without a compassto direct their course, or reason sufficient to steer the vessel; for want of which, pain and shame, instead of pleasure, are the returns of their voyage.

  Lord Chesterfield

  Pain, Rocks, People

  Lord Chesterfield (1998). “Lord Chesterfield's Letters”, p.89, OUP Oxford

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• Somewhere in your life there will be an overriding theme to your quest - some part of your desire that cannot be denied without a terrible cost to the very essence of what you are. Are you going to ignore it, or do you have the courage of your commitment and the confidence to demand that life, humanity, or circumstances give you what you want, with no other excuse, reason or apology other than that you demand it?

  Stuart Wilde

  Commitment, Apology, Essence

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• The worst danger of the mystic is as always a quest of spiritual privilege leading to aloofness from the common lot.

  Vida Dutton Scudder

  Spiritual, Privilege, Common

  Vida Dutton Scudder (1939). “The privilege of age: essays secular and spiritual”

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• Come on, readers, give me one example of a question that religion has answered to everyone's satisfaction - one example of a "truth" found in religion's quest for truth.

  Jerry A. Coyne

  Giving, Example, Satisfaction

  "Do Both Science and Faith Produce Truth?". "Why Evolution is True" blog by Jerry Coyne, whyevolutionistrue.wordpress.com. August 11, 2012.

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• Man's quest for knowledge is an expanding series whose limit is infinity, but philosophy seeks to attain that limit at one blow, by a short circuit providing the certainty of complete and inalterable truth. Science meanwhile advances at its gradual pace, often slowing to a crawl, and for periods it even walks in place, but eventually it reaches the various ultimate trenches dug by philosophical thought, and, quite heedless of the fact that it is not supposed to be able to cross those final barriers to the intellect, goes right on.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Men

  Stanislaw Lem (1984). “His Master's Voice”, p.36, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What is this enigmatic impulse that does not allow one to settle down in the achieved, the finished? I think it is a quest for reality.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Reality, Thinking, Doe

  Czeslaw Milosz's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 8, 1980.

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• If your dominant intent is to feel joy while you are doing the work, your triad of intentions - freedom, growth and joy - will come quickly and easily into alignment. See your "career" as one of creating a joyful life experience. You are not a creator of things or a regurgitator of what someone else has created or a gatherer of stuff. You are a creator, and the subject of your creation is your joyful life experience. That is your mission. That is your quest. That is why you are here.

  Esther Hicks

  Creativity, Careers, Creating

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• Humanities deepest desire for knowledge is justification enough for continuing our quest. and our goal is nothing less than a complete description of the universe we live in.

  Stephen Hawking

  Goal, Humanity, Desire

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• The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

  Carlos Castaneda

  Disappointment, Order, Play

  Carlos Castaneda (2013). “Tales of Power”, p.11, Simon and Schuster

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• It is ... marvellous ... to have a period of apparent fanaticism. No obstacle can discourage you. The single vision of your quest obscures defeat and lifts you over mountainous difficulties.

  Margaret Sanger

  Vision, Obstacles, Defeat

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• My way of remaining French was the financing scheme I used for Quest for Fire, with Fox funds, since it started as a 100% American production. The film was not in French and yet was French in style, reflecting my personality.

  Jean-Jacques Annaud

  Fire, Personality, Style

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• Violence is the quest for identity. When identity disappears with technological innovation, violence is the natural recourse.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Innovation, Identity, Violence

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• That quest for something pretty. A cheat. A cliche. Flowers and Christmas lights, it's what we're programmed to love.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Christmas, Flower, Light

  Chuck Palahniuk (2003). “Diary: A Novel”, Doubleday Books

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• A man must go on a quest / to discover the sacred fire / in the sanctuary of his own belly / to ignite the flame in his heart / to fuel the blaze in the hearth / to rekindle his ardor for the earth

  Sam Keen

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Sam Keen (2010). “Fire in the Belly: On Being a Man”, p.9, Bantam

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• If our lives are dominated by a search for happiness, then perhaps few activities reveal as much about the dynamics of this quest - in all its ardour and paradoxes - than our travels.

  Alain de Botton

  Happiness, Dynamics, Paradox

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