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• A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant, illiterate and barbaric people could have marvelous principles but could only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and barbarism of each citizen.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Ignorance, People, Political

  "Politics". Scientology Policy Letter, February 13, 1965.

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• We are forever looking outside ourselves, seeking approval and striving to impress others. But living to please others is a poor substitute for self-love, for no matter how family and friends may adore us, they can never satisfy our visceral need to love and honor ourselves.

  Susan L. Taylor

  Self, Forever, Honor

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• No nation can make itself secure by seeking supremacy over all others. We all share responsibility for each other's security, and only by working to make each other secure can we hope to achieve lasting security for ourselves.

  Kofi Annan

  Responsibility, Achieve, Share

  Kofi Annan's speech - Americas - International Herald Tribune, www.nytimes.com. December 11, 2006.

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• Though I was satisfied that I was on the verge of perhaps a magnificent find, probably one of the missing tombs that I had been seeking for many years, I was much puzzled by the smallness of the opening in comparison with those of other royal tombs in the valley.

  Howard Carter

  Years, Missing, Valleys

  Howard Carter's Diary, November 5, 1922.

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• I've never believed in seeking perfection at the risk of losing everything.

  Jean Chretien

  Losing Everything, Perfection, Risk

  "Straight From The Heart". Book by Jean Chretien (Chapter Eight "A New Constitution", p. 189), 1985.

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• Life, like the boring drunk at the office party, keeps seeking you out, leaning on you, killing you with pointless yarns and laughing bad-breathed in your face at its own unfunny jokes.

  Glen Duncan

  Life, Party, Yarn

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• Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

  Anthony Daniels

  Compassion, Attention, May

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• There is in even the most selfish passion a large element of self-abnegation. It is startling to realize that what we call extreme self-seeking is actually self-renunciation. The miser, health addict, glory chaser and their like are not far behind the selfless in the exercise of self-sacrifice.

  Eric Hoffer

  Selfish, Passion, Exercise

  Eric Hoffer (1996). “The Passionate State of Mind”

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• There is no place in which to hide when Age comes seeking for his bride.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Age, Brides, Old Age

  Joyce Kilmer (1911). “Summer of Love”

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• Elizabeth Turnage is a woman of grit and grace who lives into the stories of those who join her in this odd journey of seeking God. She honors the complexity of life without ever losing sight of the simple glory of the cross. Her grasp of the mundane and miraculous and their interplay gives a depth and honesty to her story that tugs at the heart and gives us hope our story can matter. Her book will be a clarion call to bring our broken, holy, troubled, and glorious life to the author of all stories: Jesus.

  Dan B. Allender

  Jesus, Honesty, Book

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• I know that when I look at today’s Mexicans and Central Americans, they seem to me fundamentally the same as my grandparents seeking a better life in America. On the other side, however, open immigration can’t coexist with a strong social safety net; if you’re going to assure health care and a decent income to everyone, you can’t make that offer global. So Democrats have mixed feelings about immigration; in fact, it’s an agonizing issue.

  Paul Krugman

  Strong, America, Issues

  "The Curious Politics of Immigration" by Paul Krugman, krugman.blogs.nytimes.com. April 26, 2010.

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• I think seeking perfection in human affairs is a perfect way to destroy them.

  Jaron Lanier

  Thinking, Perfect, Way

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• Since you are "in the market," you need to set standards of what you are seeking in a partner and in a relationship. Dating is not simply a prelude to a committed relationship or marriage. Dating is an opportunity to evaluate whether the person you are dating is a good candidate for you. You need to pay attention to your partner's positive and negative characteristics. Ask yourself whether you could live with this person for the rest of your life.

  David Price

  Opportunity, Dating, Pay

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• In fact, violence as a symbol of our growing irrationality has had an increasing role in activity for its own sake, when no possible justification could be made that the activity was seeking to resolve a problem.

  Carroll Quigley

  Sake, Violence, Facts

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• The modern poet has no essential alliance with regular schemes of any sorts.He reserves the right to adapt his rhythm to his mood, to modulate his metre as he progresses. Far from seeking freedom and irresponsibility (implied by the unfortunate term free verse) he seeks a stricter discipline of exact concord of thought and feeling.

  Herbert Read

  Discipline, Feelings, Progress

  "Collected Essays in Literary Criticism". Book by Herbert Read, 1938.

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• Why are the architects of the family-values agenda so eager to punish into the next generation? What is being served by seeking, quite literally, a tooth for a tooth?

  Ayelet Waldman

  Teeth, Generations, Agendas

  "Mothers in Chains". www.salon.com. May 24, 2005.

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• As a teacher and parent, I've had a very personal interest in seeking new ways of teaching. Like most other teachers and parents, I've been well aware painfully so, at times that the whole teaching/learning process is extraordinarily imprecise, most of the time a hit-and-miss operation. Students may not learn what we think we are teaching them and what they learn may not be what we intended to teach them at all.

  Betty Edwards

  Teacher, Teaching, Thinking

  Betty Edwards (1989). “Drawing on the right side of the brain: a course in enhancing creativity and artistic confidence”, Jeremy P. Tarcher

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• Acceptance is approval, a word with a bad name in some psychologies. Yet it is perfectly normal to seek approval in childhood and throughout life. We require approval from those we respect. The kinship it creates lifts us to their level, a process referred to in self-psychology as transmuting internalization. Approval is a necessary component of self-esteem. It becomes a problem only when we give up our true self to find it. Then approval-seeking works against us.

  David Richo

  Giving Up, Self Esteem, Acceptance

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• A century and a half after its birth, the modern business corporation, an artificial person made in the image of a human psychopath, now is seeking to remake real people in its image.

  Joel Bakan

  Real, People, Half

  Joel Bakan (2005). “The Corporation: The Pathological Pursuit of Profit and Power”, p.135, Simon and Schuster

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• All ancient books which have once been called sacred by man, will have their lasting place in the history of mankind, and those who possess the courage, the perseverance, and the self-denial of the true miner, and of the true scholar, will find even in the darkest and dustiest shafts what they are seeking for,-real nuggets of thought, and precious jewels of faith and hope.

  Max Muller

  Perseverance, Real, Book

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• Love - Truth-seeking The strength of Truth lies in Love and the strength of Love lies in Truth.

  Pandurang Shastri Athavale

  Love, Lying, Lies In Love

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• The moment you stop seeking pleasure in worldly things and become true master of yourself, you will experience the essential reality of the Self. Then you will no longer have to seek God. God himself will come to you. This is the Divine Law.

  Asaram

  Reality, Self, Law

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• Truth is that which, when fully realized, sets you free from all bondage and all seeking.

  Adi Da

  Truth Is, Bondage

  Adi Da Samraj (2004). “The Dawn Horse Testament of the Ruchira Avatar: The Testament of Divine Secrets of the Divine World-teacher, Ruchira Avatar Adi Da Samraj”

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• If you seek, how is that different from pursuing sound and form? If you don't seek, how are you different from earth, wood or stone? You must seek without seeking.

  Wumen Huikai

  Sound, Different, Earth

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• I had vainly been seeking a description of consciousness within science; instead, what I and others have to look for is a description of science within consciousness. We must develop a science compatible with consciousness, our primary experience.

  Amit Goswami

  Unity, Looks, Consciousness

  Amit Goswami (1995). “The Self-Aware Universe”, p.215, Penguin

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