Quotes with seeks

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  • Plautus He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
    Plautus
    Roman comic poet (250 - 184)
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  • Edward Gibbon I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.
    Edward Gibbon
    British historian (1737 - 1794)
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  • Seneca If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind.
    Seneca
    Roman philosopher, statesman and playwright (5 - 65)
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  • Friedrich Nietzsche If a woman seeks education it is probably because her sexual apparatus is malfunctioning.
    Friedrich Nietzsche
    German poet and philosopher (1844 - 1900)
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  • Horace Mann If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.
    Horace Mann
    American educator (1796 - 1859)
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  • John Muir In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.
    John Muir
    Scottish-American writer and conservationist (1838 - 1914)
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  • André Gide Know thyself. A maxim as pernicious as it is ugly. Whoever studies himself arrest his own development. A caterpillar who seeks to know himself would never become a butterfly.
    André Gide
    French writer and Nobel laureate in literature (1947) (1869 - 1951)
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  • Andrew Johnson Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests.
    Andrew Johnson
    American politician and 17th US president (1808 - 1875)
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  • Ayn Rand Love is an expression and assertion of self-esteem, a response to one's own values in the person of another. One gains a profoundly personal, selfish joy from the mere existence of the person one loves. It is one's own personal, selfish happiness that one seeks, earns, and derives from love.
    Ayn Rand
    Russian Writer, Philosopher (1905 - 1982)
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  • Bernard of Clairvaux Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.
    Bernard of Clairvaux
    French abbot (1090 - 1153)
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  • Jean Cocteau Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal. Drugs, alcohol, or lies. Unable to withdraw into himself, he disguises himself. Lies and inaccuracy give him a few moments of comfort.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Barry Zito Meyer and I have a bit in common because we're both left-handed. I think it's great that he seeks out that advice because he's not too cool or too uncomfortable to ask for it.
    Barry Zito
    American baseball pitcher and musician (1978 - )
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  • Angela Davis No march, movement, or agenda that defines manhood in the narrowest terms and seeks to make women lesser partners in this quest for equality can be considered a positive step.
    Angela Davis
    American political activist, philosopher, academic, and author (1944 - )
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  • Jean de la Bruyère One seeks to make the loved one entirely happy, or, if that cannot be, entirely wretched.
    Jean de la Bruyère
    French writer (1645 - 1696)
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  • Bill Shuster Our first responsibility is to protect the American people and we cannot put on blinders to expect that everyone who seeks asylum does so in good faith.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Henry Bolingbroke Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt.
    Henry Bolingbroke
    British politician (1678 - 1751)
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  • Edward Bulwer-Lytton Real philosophy seeks rather to solve than to deny.
    Edward Bulwer-Lytton
    English writer and poet (1803 - 1873)
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  • Nathalie Sarraute Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.
    Nathalie Sarraute
    French writer (1900 - 1999)
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's scepter, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.
    Mary Wollstonecraft
    British feministisch writer (1759 - 1797)
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  • Ronald Segal The far right seeks to retain the material progress of American capitalism while removing some of its crucial causes and consequences - as though a bridge could be made to change part of its function by blowing up part of its supports and part of its exit.
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