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• One of the big tensions in my life is that I have known the stresses of financial hardship since I was a little kid, and it is the cancer for which I am seeking a cure.

  Andy Richter

  Cancer, Stress, Kids

  Interview with Jonathan R. de la Manzana, Jr., believermag.com. September 1, 2003.

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• I think politicians and comedians have a lot in common. One is a group of approval-seeking narcissists who will say and do anything to be liked... and comedians are always talking about politics.

  Aasif Mandvi

  Thinking, Talking, Comedian

  "New role for 'Daily Show' reporter". Interview with Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. May 8, 2009.

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• The work of Liszt I most admire is the music he wrote toward the end of his life. This is often music of tremendous inventiveness. The music seems to be seeking something. It tends to be restless, unpredictable, often very sad.

  Michael Hersch

  Very Sad, Restless, Ends

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• [Saddam Hussein is aggressively seeking nuclear and biological weapons and ] the United States may well become the target.

  Dick Cheney

  United States, Nuclear, Target

  "Cheney: Saddam Wants Nuclear Weapons". www.foxnews.com. September 09, 2002.

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• I do not know what your destiny may be, but I do know this, that not one of you will find the happiness that each of you is seeking until you have first sought and found a way in which to unselfishly serve others.

  Albert Schweitzer

  Destiny, May, Way

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• When you are influential and highly respected, people tend to tell you what you want to hear, not what you need to hear. They are seeking your approval, or they flatter you. Unfortunately, this creates a gap between what you hear and reality. If you find yourself in that situation, you will need to work extra hard to get the people close to you to speak honestly into your life. And you will have to become highly intentional in observing and listening.

  John C. Maxwell

  Reality, People, Listening

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• There is an Arabic proverb which says that "Peace comes from understanding, not agreement." Agreements are more easily broken than made; but understanding never. It is urgent, therefore, and in the interest of peace, that there be better understanding among nations. As people we are one, seeking the same goal. As nations, we lose each other down the different paths we choose to fulfill our national objectives. that is why we must understand each other better.

  King Hussein I

  Agreement, Goal, People

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• All that you are seeking is also seeking you. If you lie still, sit still, it will find you. It has been waiting for you a long time.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Lying, Long, Waiting

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• So if you are seeking something else in the name of creativity, then drop the idea of being creative. At least consciously, deliberately, do whatsoever you want to do. Never hide behind masks. If you really want to be creative, then there is no question of money, success, prestige, respectability. Then you enjoy your activity; then each act has an intrinsic value. You dance because you like dancing; you dance because you delight in it.

  Rajneesh

  Creativity, Names, Ideas

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• The meek are positive and often colorful characters. They are not self-assertive nor self-seeking, to be sure, but rather they are unselfish and uncomplaining, genuinely interested in the welfare of others, creating opportunities to be of service to them, submissive in the face of injuries and insults, silent in the accidents and adversities of life, and bearing with equanimity the infamies and injustices heaped upon them.

  V. Raymond Edman

  Character, Adversity, Opportunity

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• And while you bring all countries with you, you come with a purpose of leaving all other countries behind you - bringing what is best of their spirit, but not looking over your shoulders and seeking to perpetuate what you intended to leave behind in them.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Country, Leaving, Over You

  Woodrow Wilson, Albert Bushnell Hart (2002). “Selected Addresses and Public Papers of Woodrow Wilson”, p.86, The Minerva Group, Inc.

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• When God is seeking a person, he will not allow my fear, my feeling of intimidation or my lack of knowledge or experience to prevent that person from finding him.

  Rebecca Pippert

  Feelings, Intimidation, Lack Of Knowledge

  David Peterson, Rebecca Manley-Pippert (2013). “Out of the Saltshaker and into the World: Evangelism As A Way Of Life”, p.22, SPCK

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• What we will be seeking... for the rest of our lives will be large, stable communities of like-minded people, which is to say relatives. They no longer exist. The lack of them is not only the main cause, but probably the only cause of our shapeless discontent in the midst of such prosperity.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  People, Community, Causes

  "Thoughts of a Free Thinker". Kurt Vonnegut's commencement address at Hobart and William Smith Colleges (May 26, 1974), as quoted in Kurt Vonnegut "Palm Sunday", 1981.

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• When we ask of the Lord coolly, and not fervently, we do as it were, stop His hand, and restrain Him from giving us the very blessing we "pretend" that we are seeking.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Blessing, Hands, Giving

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• The captains of industry are not hunting money. America is heavy with it. They are seeking brains - specialized brains - and faithful, loyal service. Brains are needed to carry out the plans of those who furnish the capital.

  Charles M. Schwab

  Hunting, America, Faithful

  Charles M. Schwab (2005). “Succeeding With What You Have”, p.12, Cosimo, Inc.

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• You don't rest well as long as you're seeking vengeance. I feel sad justice wasn't done, but it's time to move on and sleep well.

  James Cameron

  Moving, Sleep, Long

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• I'm not one of those people who as a writer lets my characters tell me what they want to do or call to me or seek me. I go seeking for things, using them as an agent, really.

  Richard Ford

  Character, People, Agents

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• I think jazz was just seeking respect and validity because a lot of people didn't believe it was a viable art form, and then they got a lot of attention in Europe. A lot of bands that can't catch flies in the US have these followings in Europe, [but] it's less and less the case. American audiences are way more sophisticated and adventurous than anyone thinks that they are.

  Andrew Bird

  Art, Believe, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• There are people that smuggle drugs, human trafficking, and terrorism but there are throngs and throngs of people that come through that aren't seeking to hurt anyone. They just want to feed their family.

  Myka 9

  Hurt, People, Drug

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• In other searchings it might be the object of the quest that brought satisfaction, or it might be something incidental that one got on the way; but in religion, desire was fulfilment, it was the seeking itself that rewarded.

  Willa Cather

  Desire, Quests, Might

  Willa Cather (1938). “The Novels and Stories of Willa Cather ...”

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• Every one of these hundreds of millions of human beings is in some form seeking happiness.... Not one is altogether noble nor altogether trustworthy nor altogether consistent; and not one is altogether vile.... Not a single one but has at some time wept.

  H. G. Wells

  Noble, Trustworthy, Form

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.10933, Delphi Classics

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• My father and I were never intimate in the sense of my coming to him with confidences or seeking advice. Our relationship was rather that of host and guest. Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Father, Son, Advice

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• As I looked about the world, so much of it impoverished, I became increasingly uncomfortable about having so much while my brothers and sisters were starving. Finally I had to find another way. The turning point came when, in desperation and out of a very deep seeking for a meaningful way of life, I walked all one night through the woods. I came to a moonlit glade and prayed.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Meaningful, Brother, Night

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.7, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.

  Maimonides

  Self, Divine Wisdom, Mind

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.447, Aeterna Press

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• I guess I was seeking some balance in the wildlife of the city as Rachel Carson sought it in nature. In unbalanced times, balance is as difficult to come by as Parsifal's Grail.

  Studs Terkel

  Cities, Balance, Wildlife

  Studs Terkel (2013). “The Studs Terkel Reader: My American Century”, p.191, The New Press

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