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A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
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As one digs deeper into the national character of the Americans, one sees that they have sought the value of everything in this world only in the answer to this single question: how much money will it bring in?
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As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
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Before this learning experience, I had assumed that with regard to programs that sought to help people out of poverty, the political world was essentially divided into two camps: conservatives who opposed these for a variety of reasons, and liberals who supported them.
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Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside
ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover
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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
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For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?
Source: Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum -
From the beginning of my time as Secretary-General, I have sought to advance a practical, action-oriented vision of the U.N. as the voice of the voiceless and the defender of the defenceless.
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God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
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He was thinking alone, and seriously racking his brain to find a direction for this single force four times multiplied, with which he did not doubt, as with the lever for which Archimedes sought, they should succeed in moving the world, when some one tapped gently at his door.
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I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
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If a test of civilization be sought, none can be so sure as the condition of that half of society over which the other half has power.
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In insisting, for political purposes, on a sharp division between gay and straight, gay activism, like much of feminism, has become as rigid and repressive as the old order it sought to replace.
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In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
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In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
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Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
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It is only reasonable that our laws do not force our country to provide safe harbor to those individuals that are being sought out by their governments due to their terrorist ties.
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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
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Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
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Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
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