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  • Pleasure is very seldom found where it is sought. Our brightest blazes are commonly kindled by unexpected sparks.
  • What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
  • Mysteries, like the Masonic rites, are ones parents and elders are sworn not to reveal to the uninitiated, which include all children. And so we sought for signs.
  • 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.
  • 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?
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  • Jerome of Stridon A friend is long sought, hardly found, and with difficulty kept.
    Jerome of Stridon
    Church Father and Saint (347 - 420)
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  • Alexis de Tocqueville 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?
    Alexis de Tocqueville
    French aristocrat, political philosopher and sociologist (1805 - 1859)
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  • Ralph Waldo Emerson As soon as beauty is sought not from religion and love, but for pleasure, it degrades the seeker.
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    American poet and philosopher (1803 - 1882)
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  • Barney Frank 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.
    Barney Frank
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Alan Cohen Eventually we grow weary of seeking treasures outside
    ourselves and we begin to look within. There we discover
    that the gold we sought, we already are.
    Alan Cohen
    American businessman (1954 - )
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  • Thomas à Kempis Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book.
    Thomas à Kempis
    Dutch medieval Augustinian canon, writer and mystic (1380 - 1471)
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  • Blaise Pascal 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?
    Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum
    Blaise Pascal
    French mathematician, physicist and philosopher (1623 - 1662)
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  • Ban Ki-moon 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.
    Ban Ki-moon
    South Korean politician and diplomat (1944 - )
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel 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.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Alexandre Dumas père 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.
    Alexandre Dumas père
    French writer (1802 - 1870)
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  • Albert Schweitzer 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.
    Albert Schweitzer
    German physician, theologian, philosopher, musician (1875 - 1965)
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  • Harriet Martineau 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.
    Harriet Martineau
    British writer, social criticus (1802 - 1876)
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  • Camille Paglia 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.
    Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992)
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Ben Shapiro 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.
    Ben Shapiro
    American conservative political commentator and attorney (1984 - )
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  • John F. Kennedy In the past, those who foolishly sought power by riding on the back of the tiger ended up inside.
    John F. Kennedy
    American politician (1917 - 1963)
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  • Calvin Coolidge Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth, but because they create character.
    Calvin Coolidge
    American president (1872 - 1933)
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  • Bill Shuster 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.
    Bill Shuster
    American politician and lobbyist (1961 - )
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  • Abigail Adams Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and attended to with diligence.
    Abigail Adams
    Wife of John Adams (1744 - 1818)
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  • William Shakespeare Love sought is good, but given unsought is better.
    William Shakespeare
    English playwright and poet (1564 - 1616)
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  • Charles Maurice de Talleyrand Merit, however inconsiderable, should be sought for and rewarded. Methods are the master of masters.
    Charles Maurice de Talleyrand
    French statesman (1754 - 1838)
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