Quotes with pursue

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  • Abdolkarim Soroush People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
    Abdolkarim Soroush
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Marshall Mcluhan Persons grouped around a fire or candle for warmth or light are less able to pursue independent thoughts, or even tasks, than people supplied with electric light. In the same way, the social and educational patterns latent in automation are those of self-employment and artistic autonomy.
    Marshall Mcluhan
    Canadian professor and philosopher (1911 - 1980)
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  • Ben Nicholson Politics are beautiful. They enable a community to live collectively with one another. It's not about stabbing each other in the back; it's about enabling people to reach their dreams and pursue happiness.
    Ben Nicholson
    English painter (1894 - 1982)
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  • George F. Will She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.
    George F. Will
    American columnist (1941 - )
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  • Ouida Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is much more to be regretted than its pursuit by men, because women pursue much more violently and recklessly what they pursue at all.
    Ouida
    English novelist, pseudonym of Maria Louise Ramé (1839 - 1908)
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  • Greg Anderson Stop the mindless wishing that things would be different. Rather than wasting time and emotional and spiritual energy in explaining why we don't have what we want, we can start to pursue other ways to get it.
    Greg Anderson
    American author (1947 - )
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  • Betty Friedan Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework - an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.
    Betty Friedan
    American feministisch writer (1921 - 2006)
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  • Jeremy Bentham The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
    Jeremy Bentham
    English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer (1748 - 1832)
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  • Charles Percy Snow The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt The truth is found when men are free to pursue it.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • Ben Platt There was never anything else I wanted to pursue. It was always theater, and movies are a fairly new thing.
    Ben Platt
    American actor, singer, and songwriter (1993 - )
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  • Bill Shorten Trusting people to pursue their own futures invariably provides better outcomes. Money goes where it is needed, rather than being absorbed by administration costs.
    Bill Shorten
    Australian politician (1967 - )
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  • Baz Luhrmann Ultimately, you have to pursue your own path, not someone's idea of the right path. You need to stay on your path.
    Baz Luhrmann
    Australian director, writer, and producer (1962 - )
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  • Honoré de Balzac Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.
    Honoré de Balzac
    French writer (1799 - 1850)
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  • Robert E. Lee We have fought this fight as long, and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. For us as a Christian people, there is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.
    Robert E. Lee
    American legeraanvoerder (1807 - 1870)
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  • Bruce Babbitt We have to preserve it and use it sustainably. And the short-term use of resources at the destruction of the long-term heritage of this country is not a policy that we can pursue.
    Bruce Babbitt
    American attorney and politician (1938 - )
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  • Brad Henry We must give Oklahoma families the opportunity to thrive and prosper. We must give all Oklahomans the tools necessary to pursue the American dream. And then, we must get out of the way.
    Brad Henry
    American lawyer and politician (1963 - )
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  • Brad Stone We see Google experimenting in so many places outside of its core search and advertising business, whether that's bringing broadband Internet to the world or funding an entirely separate company to pursue solutions to disease and mortality. Amazon's one of the few other companies that thinks as big as Google does.
    Brad Stone
    American journalist (1971 - )
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  • Ben Foster We've turned film into such an industry that we pursue naturalism just by shaking the camera and cutting the film to ribbons to provoke a bogus sense of documentary. But we haven't done the homework. To push the depth that the Actor's Studio did or the Russian theatres did with their actors is to rehearse, to spend time, to dig, to excavate.
    Ben Foster
    American actor (1980 - )
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  • John Gay What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.
    John Gay
    British playwright and poet (1685 - 1732)
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