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Pursued Quotes by Robert Briffault
- The full-grown modern human being who seeks but refuge finds instead boredom and mental dissolution, unless he can be, even in his withdrawal, creative. He…
- The full-grown modern human being ... is conscious of touching the highest pinnacle of fulfillment... when he is consumed in the service of an idea,…
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- I probably never would have been hired on Broadway had I not moved out to L.A. and pursued acting and film, which… — Amy Adams
- If the poet has pursued a moral objective, he has diminished his poetic force. — Charles Baudelaire
- The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of… — Jeremy Bentham
- The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense. — George Berkeley
- It's pretty clear that over the last three months the economy has paused. And it's also pretty clear the American people are… — John Boehner
- I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in… — Brandon Boyd
- We need to make sure that leaks of classified information, of national security secrets, needs to be rigorously pursued and prosecuted to… — John O. Brennan
- [M]y work, which I've done for a long time, was not pursued in order to gain the praise I now enjoy, but… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek