Best Pursuit Quotes
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The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession.
— Norman Cousins
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It is sometimes of God's mercy that men in the eager pursuit of worldly aggrandizement are baffled; for they are very like a train going…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
— William James
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Sport inevitably creates deadness of feeling. No one could take pleasure in it who was sensitive to suffering; and therefore its pursuit by women is…
— Ouida
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Agriculture is our wisest pursuit, because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals, and happiness.
— Thomas Jefferson
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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed…
— George Washington
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Goals live on the other side of obstacles and challenges. Be relentless in pursuit of those goals, especially in the face of obstacles. Along the…
— Ray Bourque
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Let us see how high we can fly before the sun melts the wax in our wings. About the ambitious pursuit of knowledge, alluding to…
— E. O. Wilson
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If I devote myself to other pursuits and contemplations, I must first see, at least, that I do not pursue them sitting upon another man's…
— Henry David Thoreau
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The essence of romantic love is not the company of a lover but the pursuit.
— Andrew Sullivan
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Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science, by rendering them my supreme delight. But the enormities of the times in which I have…
— Thomas Jefferson
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The goal of pursuit of justice must not simply be that justice happens but that reconciliation also happens.
— Miroslav Volf
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I don't view prosecutors and attorneys as natural enemies. ... Though their roles are oppositional, the two simply have different roles to play in pursuit…
— Sonia Sotomayor
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Philosophy is at once the most sublime and the most trivial of human pursuits.
— William James
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Ultimately there can be no freedom for self unless it is vouchsafed for others; there can be no security where there is fear, and a…
— Felix Frankfurter
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When you are passionate, you always have your destination in sight and you are not distracted by obstacles. Because you love what you are pursuing,…
— Mike Krzyzewski
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If two people want to get married, it's their prerogative - we hope. Everybody should be able to do what they want to do and…
— Mariah Carey
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If one were truly aware of the value of human life, to waste it blithely on distractions and the pursuit of vulgar ambitions would be…
— Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
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Modern civilization is largely devoted to the pursuit of the cult of delusion. There is no general information about the nature of mind. It is…
— Sogyal Rinpoche
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The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking…
— Josh Billings
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What did you do as a child that made that hours pass like minutes? [Herein lies the key to your earthy pursuits.]
— Carl Jung
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True happiness isn't something that can be made. It isn't the result of anything. Happiness comes to those who understand that you can't seek it…
— Guy Finley
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The architects of this wickedness will find no safe harbor in this world. We will chase our enemies to the furthest corners of this Earth.…
— Tom DeLay
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Within the mind there are no lies-no possibility of deceiving oneself; and yet, somehow we all manage to bypass the safety of truth in pursuit…
— Wes Fesler
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I usually doze off between 7:30 and 9 p.m. while putting my baby to sleep. Then I suddenly wake up remembering I'm an adult with…
— Padma Lakshmi
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