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title: "3 Hopeless Pursuit Quotes by 3 authors"
description: "Browse 3 Hopeless Pursuit quotes by 3 authors. Discover the best Hopeless Pursuit sayings and thoughts."
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> [...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/rene-dubos/search-for-the-cause-may-be-a-hopeless-pursuit-because-most-disease/)

[Rene Dubos](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/rene-dubos/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b74/rene-dubos-12577_age_search-for-the-cause-may-be-a-hopeless-p_100992.png)

> [“Do not try to be your father boy, it is a hopeless pursuit, particularly when you, like I, have a father of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-h-septimius/do-not-try-to-be-your-father-boy-it-is-a-hopeless-pursuit/)

[A. H. Septimius](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-h-septimius/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b76/a-h-septimius-23373_family_do-not-try-to-be-your-father-boy-it-is-a_1053457.jpg)

> [“But I knew from experience how hopeless this pursuit, this attempt to weed out bias, was. Nothing that lived and breathed was…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jeff-vandermeer/but-i-knew-from-experience-how-hopeless-this-pursuit-this-attempt-to/)

[Jeff VanderMeer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jeff-vandermeer/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/712/jeff-vandermeer-1366_hopeless_but-i-knew-from-experience-how-hopeless_2508848.jpg)

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