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• Let us be clear about one thing: The tea party movement is not seeking a junior partnership with the Republican Party, but a hostile takeover of it.

  Matt Kibbe

  Party, Tea, Movement

  "Countdown" with Keith Olbermann, www.nbcnews.com. August 17, 2010.

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• Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Divorce, Giving

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.213, NavPress

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• Excellence is the eternal quest. We achieve it by living up to our highest intellectual standards and our finest moral intuitions. In seeking excellence, take life seriously-but never yourself!

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Intuition, Excellence, Intellectual

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• I just need the junkies and the liars and the thieves,
  I need the pimps, prostitutes and pushers out in the streets.
  That's where I'm seeking God, cause that's where He found me.

  Killer Mike

  Liars, Rap, Hip Hop

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• Through countless births in the cycle of existence
  I have run, not finding
  although seeking the builder of this house;
  and again and again I faced the suffering of new birth.
  Oh housebuilder! Now you are seen.
  You shall not build a house again for me.
  All your beams are broken,
  the ridgepole is shattered.
  The mind has become freed from conditioning:
  the end of craving has been reached.

  Gautama Buddha

  Running, Buddhist, Broken

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• Since the late 1970s, 163 million female babies have been aborted by parents seeking sons.

  Jonathan V. Last

  Baby, Son, Parent

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• In seeking the help of the Congress and our countrymen, I pledged no easy answers. I pledged, and asked, only toil and dedication. These the Congress and the people have given in good measure.

  John F. Kennedy

  Dedication, People, Presidential

  Kennedy, John F. (1964). “Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: John F. Kennedy, 1963”, p.11, Best Books on

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• Nominee. A modest gentleman shrinking from the distinction of private life and diligently seeking the honorable obscurity of public office.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Life, Office, Gentleman

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.85, Courier Corporation

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• Instead of seeking new landscapes, develop new eyes.

  Marcel Proust

  Wise, Wisdom, Eye

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• More than this, even in those white men who professed religion we found much inconsistency of conduct. They spoke much of spiritual things, while seeking only the material.

  Charles Alexander Eastman

  Spiritual, Men, White Man

  Charles Alexander Eastman (2003). “The Soul of the Indian”, p.6, Courier Corporation

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• Our labor unions are not narrow, self-seeking groups. They have raised wages, shortened hours, and provided supplemental benefits. Through collective bargaining and grievance procedures, they have brought justice and democracy to the shop floor.

  John F. Kennedy

  Self, Justice, Presidential

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• Nothing is so much needed as a secure family life for a people seeking to rise out of poverty and backwardness.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Family, People, Poverty

  Martin Luther King (Jr.), Alex Ayres (1993). “The Wisdom of Martin Luther King, Jr”, Plume

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• There is no place for fear among men and women who Almighty, who do not hesitate to humble themselves in seeking divine guidance through prayer. Though persecutions arise, though reverses come, in prayer we can find reassurance, for God will speak peace to the soul. That peace, that spirit of serenity, is life's greatest blessing. .

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Prayer, Fear, Humble

  Ezra Taft Benson (1983). “Come unto Christ”, Deseret Book Co

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• There are a lot of millionaires being created in China. We should all be seeking that business, and I think there's enough to go around.

  Terrence Lanni

  Success, Thinking, Enough

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• The present moment has always been available to spiritual seekers, but as long as you are seeking you are not available to the present moment. "Seeking" implies that you are looking to the future for some answer, or for some achievement, spiritual or otherwise. Everybody is in the seeking mode, seeking to add something to who they are, whether it be money, relationships, possessions, knowledge, status.. or spiritual attainment.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Spiritual, Knowledge, Long

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• We Jews are accused of being destroyers: whatever you put up, we tear down. It is true only in a relative sense. We are not iconoclasts deliberately: we are not enemies of your institutions simply because of the dislike between us. We are a homeless mass seeking satisfaction for our constructive instincts. And in your institutions we cannot find satisfaction.

  Maurice Samuel

  Enemy, Tears, Satisfaction

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• The message of this season that is applicable throughout the year lies not in the receiving of earthly presents and treasures but in the forsaking of selfishness and greed and in going forward, seeking and enjoying the gifts of the Spirit, which Paul said are 'love, joy, peace, longsuffering, gentleness, goodness, faith,meekness,temperance: against such there is no law' (Gal. 5:22-23).

  James E. Faust

  Love, Lying, Gifts Of The Spirit

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• Humility consists in not esteeming ourselves above other men, and in not seeking to be esteemed above them.

  Saint Francis de Sales

  Humility, Men

  Saint Francis de Sales, Catholic Way Publishing (2015). “The Saint Francis de Sales Collection [16 Books]”, p.380, Catholic Way Publishing

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• O my God, teach me to be generous
  to serve you as you deserve to be served
  to give without counting the cost
  to fight without fear of being wounded
  to work without seeking rest
  and to spend myself without expecting any reward
  but the knowledge that I am doing your holy will.
  Amen

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Fighting, Giving, Cost

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• If you investigate the matter deeply enough and widely enough, you will find that happiness eludes nearly all men despite the fact that they are forever seeking it. The fortunate and successful few are those who have stopped seeking with the ego alone and allow the search to be directed inwardly by the higher self. They alone can find a happiness unblemished by defects or deficiencies, a Supreme Good which is not a further source of pain and sorrow but an endless source of satisfaction and peace.

  Paul Brunton

  Pain, Successful, Men

  Paul Brunton (1984). “The Notebooks of Paul Brunton: Perspectives (posthumous)”

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• The inventor is a man who looks around upon the world and is not contented with things as they are. He wants to improve whatever he sees, he wants to benefit the world; he is haunted by an idea. The spirit of invention possesses him, seeking materialization.

  Alexander Graham Bell

  Men, Ideas, Looks

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• Despite their tremendous talent, (NBA players) are still, by and large, young adults, seeking validation from an authority figure, and there is no greater authority figure on a team than the coach. Needless to say, in today's warped, self-indulgent climate, too many players couldn't care less about appeasing the coach.

  Phil Jackson

  Team, Player, Nba

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• Learning is not automatic. You do not automatically know how to read because you turn five. Most of us are sensitive to the fact that we still have something to learn at every step of the way. Learning is not automatic. It comes with seeking and searching, with reading and watching, with thinking, praying, and listening.

  Marion D. Hanks

  Reading, Thinking, Listening

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• By painting colors and lines and forms seen in quickened mood I was seeking to make this mood vibrate as a phonograph does. This was the origin of the paintings in The Frieze of Life.

  Edvard Munch

  Color, Doe, Lines

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• If you're sincerely seeking God, God will make His existence evident to you.

  William Lane Craig

  Existence, Gods Will, Seeking God

  William Lane Craig, Walter Sinnott-Armstrong (2003). “God?: A Debate between a Christian and an Atheist”, p.28, Oxford University Press

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