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I believe everyone on this planet deserves equal rights to their own pursuit of happiness. — Joel Madden
To be controlled in our economic pursuits means to be controlled in everything. — Friedrich August von Hayek
For what purpose humanity is there should not even concern us: why you are here, that you should ask yourself: and if you have no… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The protection of human rights to promote the dignity of the individual is too important a matter for symbolic gestures alone. It is only through… — Alexander Downer
True happiness involves the pursuit of worth goals; without dreams, without risks, only a trivial semblance of living can be achieved. — Dan Buettner
Love is not about chasing someone; it's not about being chased or being the one chasing. It's about chasing after dreams and if in that… — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
There are only two noble pursuits in life: knowledge and love. — Carlos Salinas de Gortari
A rentier is an investor whose relationship to a company or enterprise is strictly limited to the ownership of financial wealth (such as stocks or… — Unknown Author
The impulse to acquisition, pursuit of gain, of money, of the greatest possible amount of money, has in itself nothing to do with capitalism. This… — Max Weber
Capitalism may even be identical with the restraint, or at least a rational tempering, of this irrational impulse. But capitalism is identical with the restraint,… — Max Weber
Capitalism is the only system that can make freedom, individuality, and the pursuit of values possible in practice. When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a… — Ayn Rand
Hinduism is a relentless pursuit of Truth. "Truth is God" and if today it has become moribund, inactive, irresponsive to growth, it is because we… — Mahatma Gandhi
For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently… — Georg Simmel
But neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims. Just as man is free to attempt to survive in any… — Ayn Rand
It is a rare person who can pierce the veil between ordinarly life, consumed with matters of physical survival, and pursuit of the empowered path… — Caroline Myss
The state governments have a full superintendence and control over the immense mass of local interests of their respective states, which connect themselves with the… — Joseph Story
I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. — John D. Rockefeller
Poetry is a solitary process. One does not write poetry for the masses. Poetry is a self-involved, lofty pursuit. Songs are for the people. When… — Patti Smith
The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego. — Northrop Frye
Energy is the basis of everything. Every Jew, no matter how insignificant, is engaged in some decisive and immediate pursuit of a goal... It is… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a… — Malcolm Muggeridge
This place is the Devil, or at least his principal residence, they call it the University, but any other appellation would have suited it much… — Lord Byron
My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence. — John Kluge
The indefatigable pursuit of an unattainable perfection -even though nothing more than the pounding of an old piano -is what alone gives a meaning to… — Logan Pearsall Smith
Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure. — Marvin J. Ashton

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