Quotes with seeks

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  • J. Robert Oppenheimer The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance; The wise grows it under his feet.
    J. Robert Oppenheimer
    American theoretical physicist and professor of physics (1904 - 1967)
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  • Salman Rushdie The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.
    Salman Rushdie
    Engels writer (1947 - )
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  • Harry A. Overstreet The immature mind hops from one thing to another; the mature mind seeks to follow through.
    Harry A. Overstreet
    American writer and lecturer (1875 - 1970)
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  • Sigmund Freud The impression forces itself upon one that men measure by false standards, that everyone seeks power, success, riches for himself, and admires others who attain them, while undervaluing the truly precious thing in life.
    Sigmund Freud
    Austrian psychiatrist (1856 - 1939)
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  • Bertrand Russell The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.
    Conquest of Happiness Ch. 1: What Makes People Unhappy?
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Jim Dodge The mind is the shadow of the light it seeks.
    Stone Junction (2004) 348
    Jim Dodge
    American novelist and poet (1945 - )
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  • Claudius Claudianus The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .
    Claudius Claudianus
    Latin writer of Greek descent (370 - 404)
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  • Woodrow Wilson The success of a party means little more than that the Nation is using the party for a large and definite purpose. It seeks to use and interpret a change in its own plans and point of view.
    Woodrow Wilson
    American president (1856 - 1924)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson The torpid artist seeks inspiration at any cost, by virtue or by vice, by friend or by fiend, by prayer or by wine.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Alexander Cockburn The travel writer seeks the world we have lost - the lost valleys of the imagination.
    Alexander Cockburn
    Irish-American political journalist and writer (1941 - 2012)
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  • Aaron Klug This field is not necessarily glamorous, nor does it often produce immediate results, but it seeks to increase our basic understanding of living processes.
    Aaron Klug
    British biophysicist (1926 - 2018)
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  • Nikita Ivanovich Panin Two men please God - who serves Him with all his heart because he knows Him; who seeks Him with all his heart because he knows Him not.
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  • Max Lerner We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it.
    Max Lerner
    American Author, Columnist (1902 - 1992)
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  • Helen Schucman When the wish for peace is genuine, the means for finding it is giving in a form each mind that seeks for it in honesty can understand.
    Helen Schucman
    American psychologist
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  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.
    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    American statesman (1882 - 1945)
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  • H. L. F. von Helmholtz Whoever, in the pursuit of science, seeks after immediate practical utility, may generally rest assured that he will seek in vain.
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  • Bill Paxton You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on.
    Bill Paxton
    American actor and director (1955 - 2017)
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  • E. F. Schumacher An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.
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  • Claude Bernard The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.
    Claude Bernard
    French physiologist (1813 - 1878)
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