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• The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

  Hannah Arendt

  Needs, Inspired, Reason

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.31, HMH

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• Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me stick with Phil [Robertson] when there wasn't much to hold on to. How has Phil changed? Do you have a year to hear about it? His love for the outdoors, his pioneer spirit, and his quest for adventure has not changed. But his heart has been turned inside out. He's a new man in every way that involves relationships.

  Kay Robertson

  Heart, Adventure, Commitment

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• The fear of being deceived is the vulgar version of the quest for Truth.

  Emile M. Cioran

  Vulgar, Deceived, Versions

  Emile M. Cioran (1976). “The Trouble with Being Born”, Viking Books

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• In a sense the quest for the emancipation of black people in the U.S. has always been a quest for economic liberation which means to a certain extent that the rise of black middle class would be inevitable.

  Angela Davis

  Mean, Class, People

  "Frontline", www.pbs.org. 1997.

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• In this quest to seek and find God in all things, there is still an area of uncertainty. There must be. If a person says that he met God with total certainty and is not touched by a margin of uncertainty, then this is not good.

  Pope Francis

  Mets, Certainty, Persons

  Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.97, A&C Black

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• I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.

  William Gibson

  Media, Tiny, Firsts

  "William Gibson Talks Zero History, Paranoia and the Awesome Power of Twitter". Interview with Scott Thill, www.wired.com. September 7, 2010.

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• The quest for Tommy Lee Jones' laugh begins now.

  Seth MacFarlane

  Laughing

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• In the quest to be clever, I completely forgot about the people that I love and that love me.

  John Mayer

  Clever, People

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• Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man.

  Bryant H. McGill

  Humility, Men, Self

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• Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

  Liam Neeson

  Accepting, Kinsey

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• To write a novel is to embark on a quest that is very romantic. People have visions, and the next step is to execute them. That's a very romantic project. Like Edvard Munch's strange dreamlike canvases where people are stylized, like 'The Scream.' Munch must have had that vision in a dream, he never saw it.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Dream, Writing, People

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• When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes our quest, in that moment God will endow us with power.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Moments

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• The road must be trod, but it will be very hard. And neither strength nor wisdom will carry us far upon it. This quest may be attempted by the weak with as much hope as the strong. Yet it is oft the course of deeds that move the wheels of the world: Small hands do them because they must, while the eyes of the great are elsewhere.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Strong, Moving, Eye

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The day obedience becomes a quest and not an irritation is the day you gain power.

  Spencer W. Kimball

  Irritation, Gains, Obedience

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• There are roughly three New Yorks. There is, first, the New York of the man or woman who was born here, who takes the city for granted and accepts its size and its turbulence as natural and inevitable. Second, there is the New York of the commuter — the city that is devoured by locusts each day and spat out each night. Third, there is the New York of the person who was born somewhere else and came to New York in quest of something.

  E. B. White

  New York, Passion, Night

  "In the Words of E.B. White: Quotations from America's Most Companionable of Writers".

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• In this long eternal quest to be more like our Savior, may we try to be “perfect” men and women in at least this one way now—by offending not in word, or more positively put, by speaking with a new tongue, the tongue of angels. Our words, like our deeds, should be filled with faith and hope and charity, the three great Christian imperatives so desperately needed in the world today.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Christian, Angel, Men

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• I only hope that when I am free, as they are free to go in quest, of the knowledge beyond the bounds of life, it may not seem better to me to rest.

  Robert Frost

  May, Seems, Bounds

  Robert Frost (2012). “Frost: Poems”, p.262, Everyman's Library

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• It also occurred to him that throughout history, humankind has told two stories: the story of a lost ship sailing the Mediterranean seas in quest of a beloved isle, and the story of a god who allows himself to be crucified on Golgotha.

  Jorge Luis Borges

  Sea, Two, Sailing

  Jorge Luis Borges (2000). “Brodie's report: including the prose fiction from In praise of darkness”

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• In every age, people are certain that only the things they have deemed valuable have true value. The search for love and the search for wealth are always the two best stories. But while a love story is timeless, the story of a quest for wealth, given enough time, will always seem like the vain pursuit of a mirage.

  Mark Kurlansky

  Love, Two, People

  Mark Kurlansky (2003). “Salt: A World History”, p.15, Penguin

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• I stand here on the summit of the mountain. I lift my head and I spread my arms. This, my body and spirit, this is the end of the quest. I wished to know the meaning of all things. I am the meaning. I wished to find a warrant for being. I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction. Neither am I the means to any end others may wish to accomplish. I am not a tool for their use. I am not a servant of their needs. I am not a sacrifice on their alters.

  Ayn Rand

  Mean, Sacrifice, Mountain

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• God is pursuing with omnipotent passion a worldwide purpose of gathering joyful worshipers for Himself from every tribe and tongue and people and nation. He has an inexhaustible enthusiasm for the supremacy of His name among the nations. Therefore, let us bring our affections into line with His, and, for the sake of His name, let us renounce the quest for worldly comforts and join His global purpose.

  John Piper

  Passion, Names, People

  John Piper (2010). “Let the Nations Be Glad!: The Supremacy of God in Missions”, p.62, Baker Academic

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• A good piece of fiction, in my view, does not offer solutions. Good stories deal with our moral struggles, our uncertainties, our dreams, our blunders, our contradictions, our endless quest for understanding. Good stories do not resolve the mysteries of the human spirit but rather describe and expand up on those mysteries.

  Tim O'Brien

  Dream, Struggle, Views

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