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• It's the side-by-side culture of the Talmud I like so much. 'On the one hand' and 'on the other hand' is frustrating for people seeking absolute faith, but for me it gives religion an ambidextrous quality that suits my temperament.

  Jonathan Rosen

  Hands, People, Giving

  Jonathan Rosen (2001). “The Talmud and the Internet: A Journey Between Worlds”, p.85, A&C Black

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• God is enough. That is the root of peace. When we start seeking something besides Him, we lose it.

  Brennan Manning

  Roots, Enough, Loses

  Brennan Manning (2008). “The Ragamuffin Gospel: Good News for the Bedraggled, Beat-Up, and Burnt Out”, p.30, Multnomah

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• Let your first business be to perform your duties at home. But, inasmuch as you are wise stewards, you will find time for social duties. . . . By seeking to perform every duty you will find that your capacity will increase, and you will be astonished at what you can accomplish.

  Eliza R. Snow

  Wise, Home, Firsts

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• Everyone has a natural slant towards seeking themselves. This gets in the way of seeking God unless God intervenes.

  Criss Jami

  Way, Natural, Seeking God

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.25, Criss Jami

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• In order to be able thus to misjudge, and thus to grant left-handed veneration to our classics, people must have ceased to know them. This, generally speaking, is precisely what has happened. For, otherwise, one ought to know that there is only one way of honoring them, and that is to continue seeking with the same spirit and with the same courage, and not to weary of the search.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Order, People, Able

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Delphi Complete Works of Friedrich Nietzsche (Illustrated): Friedrich Nietzsche”, Delphi Classics

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• We repose too much upon the actual, when we should be seeking to develop the possibilities of our being. It is true of nearly all of us, that what we have done is little compared with what we might have accomplished, or may hereafter effect.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Done, May, Littles

  Christian Nestell Bovee (1862). “Intuitions and Summaries of Thought”, p.99

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• In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Disappointment, Long, Might

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• I firmly believe that the moment our hearts are emptied of pride and selfishness and ambition and self-seeking and every thing that is contrary to God's law, the Holy Ghost will come and fill every corner of our hearts; but if we are full of pride and conceit and ambition and self-seeking and pleasure and the world, there is no room for the Spirit of God; and I believe many a man is praying to God to fill him when he is full already with something else.

  Dwight L. Moody

  Believe, Heart, Ambition

  Dwight L Moody (2013). “Secret Power”, p.20, Lulu Press, Inc

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• What is wonderful about a university like LSE is that you not only receive teaching of very high quality, you also learn where to find the knowledge you are seeking. And you make unexpected discoveries; it was a Marxist professor who introduced me to the work of Cardinal Newman, a great master of English prose as well as theology.

  Pierre Trudeau

  Teaching, Discovery, Quality

  "Memoirs". Book by Pierre Trudeau, 1993.

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• Great work is the result of seeking out tension, not avoiding it.

  Seth Godin

  Great Work, Results, Tension

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• The First thing that strikes a traveler in the United States is the innumerable multitude of those who seek to emerge from their original condition; and the second is the rarity of lofty ambition to be observed in the midst of the universally ambitious stir of society. No Americans are devoid of a yearning desire to rise, but hardly any appear to entertain hopes of great magnitude or to pursue very lofty aims. All are constantly seeking to acquire property, power, and reputation.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ambition, Ambitious, Desire

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville, Volume II. Book Three, Chapter XIX, 1840.

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• Literary criticism has about it neither rigour nor proof. Where it is honest, it is passionate, private experience seeking to persuade.

  George Steiner

  Criticism, Passionate, Honest

  George Steiner (1987). “George Steiner: A Reader”, p.165, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Man is not the enemy of man, but through the medium of a false system of Government. Instead, therefore, of exclaiming against the ambition of kings, the exclamation should be directed against the principle of such governments; and instead of seeking to reform the individual, the wisdom of a nation should apply itself to reform the system.

  Thomas Paine

  Kings, Ambition, Men

  Thomas Paine (1856). “Rights of Man: Being an Answer to Mr. Burke's Attack on the French Revolution”, p.76

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• Only one ship is seeking us, a black-Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her backA huge and birdless silence. In her wakeNo waters breed or break.

  Philip Larkin

  Water, Silence, Black

  Philip Larkin (2012). “The Less Deceived”, p.12, Faber & Faber

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• Patience is seeking help only from Allah.

  Dhul-Nun al-Misri

  Helping, Seeking Help

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• It is love that I am seeking for, But of a beautiful, unheard-of kind That is not in the world.

  William Butler Yeats

  Love, Beautiful, World

  William Butler Yeats (2000). “The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats”, p.354, Wordsworth Editions

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• [G]enes make enzymes, and enzymes control the rates of chemical processes. Genes do not make "novelty seeking" or any other complex and overt behavior. Predisposition via a long chain of complex chemical reactions, mediated through a more complex series of life's circumstances, does not equal identification or even causation.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Long, Doe, Enzymes

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• Immortal life is something to be earned, By slow self-conquest, comradeship with Pain, And patient seeking after higher truths.

  Francis Quarles

  Pain, Self, Immortal Life

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• Prostitution requires for its diminution not only laws, well enforced, to abolish the traffic in womanhood; not only better social protection against harpies who seduce young girls seeking an honest livelihood; not only better chaperonage of young girls in exposed occupations; not only better opportunities for natural enjoyment of youthful pleasure under morally safe conditions; not only these - but most of all, greater power on the part of the average young girl to earn her own support under right conditions and for a living wage.

  Anna Garlin Spencer

  Girl, Power, Opportunity

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• Before me now there is only one real fact -- Death. The truth I have been seeking -- this truth is Death. Yet Death is also a seeker. Forever seeking me. So -- we have met at last. And I am prepared. I am at peace. Because I will conquer death with death.

  Bruce Lee

  Death, Real, Forever

  "The Warrior Within : The Philosophies of Bruce Lee" by John Little, (p. 77), 1996.

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• Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

  Immanuel Kant

  Thinking, Honor, Arrogance

  Immanuel Kant (1996). “Kant: The Metaphysics of Morals”, p.188, Cambridge University Press

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• Let’s shine the light of consciousness on places where we can hope to find what we are seeking.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Light, Shining, Consciousness

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• People who have a seeking heart still make mistakes. But their reaction to rebuke and correction shows the condition of that heart. It determines what God is able to do with them in the future.

  Jim Cymbala

  Mistake, Heart, People

  Jim Cymbala (2008). “Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire”, p.145, Zondervan

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• Satan is ever seeking to inject that poison into our hearts to distrust God's goodness - especially in connection with his commandments. That is what really lies behind all evil, lusting and disobedience. A discontent with our position and portion, a craving from something which God has wisely held from us. Reject any suggestion that God is unduly severe with you. Resist with the utmost abhorrence anything that causes you to doubt God's love and his loving-kindness toward you. Allow nothing to make you question the Father's love for his child.

  Arthur W. Pink

  Faith, Children, Kindness

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• Woman must especially devote her energies and abilities toward the industrial and agricultural sciences, seeking to assist mankind in that which is most needful. By this means she will demonstrate capability and ensure recognition of equality in the social and economic equation.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Mean, Energy, Recognition

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