Quotes 41 till 60 of 88.
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One knows so well the popular idea of health. The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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One of the things that happens in my house on the holidays is after dessert, we sit down to a very ambitious men-versus-women game of Trivial Pursuit. It's brutal. And there's a trophy.
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President Obama's consistent agenda has been to weaken the United States and our allies in pursuit of a more 'balanced' global power structure.
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Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle.
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Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.
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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.
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The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward.
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The crowning fortune of a man is to be born to some pursuit which finds him employment and happiness, whether it be to make baskets, or broadswords, or canals, or statues, or songs.
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The English country gentleman galloping after a fox - the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking it.
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The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to our life on this unavailing star.
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The judge is not the knight-errant, roaming at will in pursuit of his own ideal of beauty or of goodness.
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The necessary has never been man's top priority. The passionate pursuit of the nonessential and the extravagant is one of the chief traits of human uniqueness. Unlike other forms of life, man's greatest exertions are made in the pursuit not of necessities but of superfluities.
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The people have a right to the truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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The preserve of ambition and folly in pursuit of illusion, or delusion.
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The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.
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The pursuit of eternity is no longer the prerogative of the gods - it is the business of us all, here and now.
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The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase; if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.
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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.
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