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As founder and co-chair of the upper Mississippi River Congressional task force, I have long sought to preserve the river's health and historical multiple uses,… — Ron Kind
The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart. — Russell M. Nelson
I agree with people like Richard Dawkins that mankind felt the need for creation myths. Before we really began to understand disease and the weather… — Bill Gates
Truth is power, but only when one has patience and requires of it no immediate effect. And one must have no specific aims. Somehow, lack… — Romano Guardini
Such has often been my apathy, when objects long sought, and earnestly desired, were placed within my reach. — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Here was the freedom I desired, long sought-for, not yet known Freedom to write, to walk, to wander, freedom to climb hills, to pull a… — Daphne du Maurier
In 2003... the White House conspired with an oil-company funded think tank to block a major government scientific report that sought to spell out the… — Joseph J. Romm
In fact it is remarkable that this theory has had progressively greater influence on the spirit of researchers, following a series of discoveries in different… — Pope John Paul II
We may as well face it: the whole level of spirituality among us is low. We have measured ourselves by ourselves until the incentive to… — Aiden Wilson Tozer
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly… — Johann Gottlieb Fichte
Literally minutes before the Senate cast its vote, the administration sought to add the words 'in the United States and' after 'appropriate force' in the… — Tom Daschle
With equal passion I have sought knowledge. I have wished to understand the hearts of men. I have wished to know why the stars shine.… — Bertrand Russell
Mathematicians have sought knowledge in figures, Philosophers in systems, Logicians in subtleties, and Metaphysicians in sounds. It is not in any nor in all of… — Charles Caleb Colton
Literature professes to be important while at the same time considering itself an object of doubt. It confirms itself as it disparages itself. It seeks… — Maurice Blanchot
I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see, I sought my god, but my god eluded me; And then I sought my… — Baba Amte
Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather… — Chantal Kreviazuk
It has pleased no less than surprised me that of the many studies whereby I have sought to extend the field of general chemistry, the… — Wilhelm Ostwald
But the whole history of America is quite different from Europe. People went there to get away from the intolerance and constraints of life in… — Margaret Thatcher
Socialism's results have ranged between the merely shabby and the truly catastrophic - poverty, strife, oppression and, on the killing fields of communism, the deaths… — Margaret Thatcher
For nearly a decade Democrats have sought a religious wedge issue that could separate big chunks of white evangelical voters from their Republican home. Now… — Marvin Olasky
My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent… — Edward Kennedy
Control is never achieved when sought after directly; it is the surprising result of letting go. — James Arthur Ray
I've always sought to express a tension in form and meaning in order to achieve a veracity. I have come to the conclusion that the… — Nancy Spero
Sometimes it's a struggle to get over self-love first. Sometimes in this struggle for love, we give up, or lose everything, and we still don't… — J. California Cooper
The writer, like a swimmer caught by an undertow, is borne in an unexpected direction. He is carried to a subject which has awaited him--a… — Elizabeth Bowen

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