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• Socialists have always spent much of their time seeking new titles for their beliefs, because the old versions so quickly become outdated and discredited.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Titles, Belief, Outdated

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• Our pursuit of God is successful just because He is forever seeking to manifest Himself to us.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Faith, God, Christian

  Aiden Wilson Tozer (1968). “The Pursuit of God”, p.89, Fig

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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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• In isolation I ruthlessly plow the deep silences, seeking my opportunities like a miner seeking veins of treasures. In what shallow glimmering space shall I find what glimmering glory?

  Jamaica Kincaid

  Opportunity, Space, Silence

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• People frequently ask me why I devote so much time to seeking out facts about man’s past…the past shows clearly that we all have a common origin and that our differences in race, colour and creed are only superficial.

  Louis Leakey

  Past, Men, Race

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• The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches.

  Brian Solis

  People, Answers, Lines

  Brian Solis (2010). “Engage: The Complete Guide for Brands and Businesses to Build, Cultivate, and Measure Success in the New Web”, p.7, John Wiley & Sons

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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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• You are that which you are seeking.

  Brandon Bays

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• And, of course, customers really need to feel safe and are seeking reassurance when they fly.

  David Neeleman

  Safety, Needs, Reassurance

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• It is in the hard, hard rockpile labor of seeking to win, hold, or deserve a reader's interest that the pleasant agony of writing again comes in.

  John Mason Brown

  Writing, Winning, Agony

  "Still seeing things".

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• I think all kinds of parents are different in what they're seeking.

  Margaret Spellings

  Thinking, Parent, Different

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• Seeking the good is not primarily about rules and commandments.

  Timothy Radcliffe

  Commandments

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• Fascist intellectuals, such as Ugo Spirito, made the round of conferences preaching the virtues of postcapitalism fascism and in fact tried to nudge the structure in a 'leftist' direction by calling for more collective control and even corporative ownership of the economy. Mussolini looked abroad to find that Franklin Roosevelt was merely seeking to emulate Italy's innovations.

  Charles S. Maier

  Government, Innovation, Calling

  Charles S. Maier (1987). “In Search of Stability: Explorations in Historical Political Economy”, p.81, Cambridge University Press

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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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• A lack of knowledge creates fear. Seeking knowledge creates courage.

  Candice Swanepoel

  Fear, Lack Of Knowledge

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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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• 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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• 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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• I am rediscovering the whole sexual dimension of life at the age of 86, really. And that also means discovering the feminine. So the whole of this dimension, which I had been seeking for a very long time, is now sort of opening itself up to me.

  Bede Griffiths

  Mean, Long, Age

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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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• 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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• When spiritual seeking becomes too complicated, its exercies too elaborated, its doctrines too esoteric, it becomes also too artificial and the resulting achievements too fabricated. It is the beginners and intermediates who carry this heavy and unnecessary burden, who involve themselves to the point of becoming neurotics.

  Paul Brunton

  Spiritual, Achievement, Beginners

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• God never tires of forgiving us; we are the ones who tire of seeking his mercy.

  Pope Francis

  Forgiving, Tire, Mercy

  Pope Francis (2014). “The Joy of the Gospel”, p.5, BookBaby

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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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• 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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