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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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• Jacopo Belbo didnt understand that he had had his moment and that it would have to be enough for him, for all his life. Not recognizing it, he spent the rest of his days seeking something else, until he damned himself.

  Umberto Eco

  Moments, Enough, Recognizing

  Umberto Eco (1997). “Foucault's Pendulum”

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• Today, something is happening to the whole structure of human consciousness. A fresh kind of life is starting. Driven by the forces of love, the fragments of the world are seeking each other, so that the world may come into being.

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

  Climate, World, May

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• Controversial daily radio host. Considered to be engaging in unacceptable behaviour by seeking to provoke others to serious criminal acts and fostering hatred which might lead to inter-community violence.

  Michael Savage

  Community, Hatred, Violence

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• We are always seeking for those things which are in the clouds, not for those that lie at our feet.

  Henry Ford

  Lying, Clouds, Feet

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• My parents came to the United States in the early years of this century as part of a wave of Russian Jewish immigrants seeking freedom and opportunity in the New World.

  Daniel Nathans

  Opportunity, Years, Parent

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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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• Many of us Christians have become extremely skillful in arranging our lives so as to admit the truth of Christianity without being embarrassed by its implications. We arrange things so that we can get on well enough without divine aid, while at the same time ostensibly seeking it. We boast in the Lord but watch carefully that we never get caught depending on Him.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Christian, Watches, Lord

  "The Root of the Righteous". Book by Aiden Wilson Tozer, p. 39, 1955.

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• We usually do not look into what is really there in front of us. We see life through a screen of thoughts and concepts, and we mistake those mental objects for reality. We get so caught up in this endless thought-stream that reality flows by unnoticed. We spend our time engrossed in activity, caught up in an eternal flight from pain and unpleasantness. We spend our energies trying to make ourselves feel better, trying to bury our fears. We are endlessly seeking security. Meanwhile, the world of real experience flows by untouched and untasted.

  Henepola Gunaratana

  Pain, Real, Mistake

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• Percentage margins are not one of the things we are seeking to optimize. It’s the absolute dollar free cash flow per share that you want to maximize, and if you can do that by lowering margins, we would do that.  So if you could take the free cash flow, that’s something that investors can spend. Investors can’t spend percentage margins.

  Jeff Bezos

  Cash Flow, Dollars, Want

  "Jeff Bezos on Leading for the Long-Term at Amazon". "HBR IdeaCast" with Adi Ignatius, hbr.org.

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• The punitive use of force tends to generate hostility and to reinforce resistance to the very behavior we are seeking.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Communication, Use, Resistance

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• If you go on working with the light available, you will meet your Master, as he himself will be seeking you.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Light, Goes On, Action

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• Reality is simply the loss of ego. Destroy the ego by seeking its identity. Because the ego is no entity it will automatically vanish and reality will shine forth by itself.

  Ramana Maharshi

  Loss, Reality, Shining

  Maharshi Ramana, Swami Saraswati Ramananda (1963). “Talks with Sri Ramana Maharshi”

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• A government is a compulsory territorial monopolist of ultimate decision-making (jurisdiction) and, implied in this, a compulsory territorial monopolist of taxation. That is, a government is the ultimate arbiter, for the inhabitants of a given territory, regarding what is just and what is not, and it can determine unilaterally, i.e., without requiring the consent of those seeking justice or arbitration, the price that justice-seekers must pay to the government for providing this service.

  Hans-Hermann Hoppe

  Government, Justice, Decision

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• The suicide arrives at the conclusion that what he is seeking does not exist; the seeker concludes that what he has not yet looked in the right place

  Paul Watzlawick

  Suicide, Doe, Conclusion

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• I think leadership is knowing what you want to achieve and then purposefully and sensibly taking steps to achieve it, remembering always that you have got to bring people with you if you are seeking to be a successful political leader.

  Tony Abbott

  Successful, Thinking, Knowing

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

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• What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.

  Amedeo Modigliani

  Real, Race, Mystery

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• U Must Be What it is that youre Seeking - that is, U Need to Put Forth what U Want to Attract

  Wayne Dyer

  Needs, Want

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• My seeking has been to explain and illuminate the Negro condition in America and obliquely that of all human kind.

  Langston Hughes

  America, Kind, Humans

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• You are that which you are seeking.

  Brandon Bays

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• Seldom can the heart be lonely,
  If it seek a lonelier still;
  Self-forgetting, seeking only
  Emptier cups of love to fill.

  Frances Ridley Havergal

  Lonely, Heart, Self

  Frances Ridley Havergal (1872). “The Ministry of Song”, p.63

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• The Vagabond life is the logical life to lead if one seeks the intimate knowledge of the world we were seeking.

  Richard Halliburton

  Vagabonds, World, Life Is

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• The things in my songs are the edited highlights of my life. I don't go seeking out strange sexual experiences every day of the week.

  Jarvis Cocker

  Song, Strange, Week

  "Pulp" by Imogen Tilden, www.theguardian.com. October 22, 2001.

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• The Universe wants to play. Those who refuse out of dry spiritual greed & choose pure contemplation forfeit their humanity - those who refuse out of dull anguish, those who hesitate, lose their chance at divinity - those who mold themselves blind masks of Ideas & thrash around seeking some proof of their own solidity end by seeing out of dead men's eyes.

  Hakim Bey

  Spiritual, Eye, Men

  Hakim Bey (2003). “T.A.Z.: The Temporary Autonomous Zone, Ontological Anarchy, Poetic Terrorism”, p.22, Autonomedia

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• But I'm not worried about seeking out the approval of others - that high school thing of joining the club.

  Stephan Jenkins

  School, Approval Of Others, Appreciate

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