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• I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

  John Sexton

  Photography, Trying, Yosemite

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• What then in love can woman do? If we grow fond they shun us. And when we fly them, they pursue: But leave us when they've won us.

  John Gay

  Love, Affection, Grows

  John Gay (1893). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: Translations, Prologues and epilogues, Fables, Poems from 'Gay's chair', Miscellaneous pieces, Songs and ballads”

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• Variety's the source of joy below, From whence still fresh-revolving pleasures flow, In books and love the mind one end pursues, And only change the expiring flames renews.

  John Gay

  Book, Flames, Joy

  John Gay (1863). “The Poetical Works of John Gay: With a Life of the Author”, p.129

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• No man or woman who tries to pursue an ideal in his or her own way is without enemies.

  Daisy Bates

  Inspirational, Women, Enemy

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• The Founders believed, and the Conservative agrees, in the dignity of the individual; that we, as human beings, have a right to live, live freely, and pursue that which motivates us not because man or some government says so, but because these are God-given natural rights.

  Mark Levin

  Men, Rights, Conservative

  Mark R. Levin (2009). “Liberty and Tyranny: A Conservative Manifesto”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• The thought of building a life around minimal morality or minimal significance—a life defined by the question, “What is permissible?”—felt almost disgusting to me. I didn’t want a minimal life. I didn’t want to live on the outskirts of reality. I wanted to understand the main thing about life and pursue it.

  John Piper

  Reality, Want, Morality

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• Once you have dared to dream, I believe you MUST pursue that dream. If you do not pursue your dreams they will consume you; the knowledge that you had a dream but did not pursue it is killing knowledge. Consider it absolutely necessary to go after your dreams.

  Les Brown

  Dream, Believe, Killing

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• It takes more energy to maintain mediocrity than it takes to pursue excellence.

  Matthew Kelly

  Excellence, Energy, Mediocrity

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• A woman who fears the Lord will not run away from God to satisfy her longings and relieve her anxieties. She will wait for the Lord. She will hope in God. She will stay close to the heart of God and trust in his promises. The prospect of departing into the way of sin will be too fearful to pursue; and the benefits of abiding in the shadow of the Almighty too glorious to forsake.

  John Piper

  Running, Heart, Waiting

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• A sense of duty pursues us ever. It is omnipresent, like the Deity. If we take to ourselves the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, duty performed or duty violated is still with us, for our happiness or our misery. If we say the darkness shall cover us, in the darkness as in the light our obligations are yet with us.

  Daniel Webster

  Happiness, Morning, Light

  Daniel Webster, Edward Everett (1853). “Works: with a Biographical Memoir”, p.105

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• The difference between success and failure isn't the absence of fear but the determination to pursue your heart's desires no matter how scared you are.

  Martha Beck

  Determination, Heart, Differences

  Martha Beck (2008). “Finding Your Own North Star: Claiming the Life You Were Meant to Live”, p.181, Harmony

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• God is love precisely because He relentlessly pursues the praises of His name in the hearts of His people.

  John Piper

  Heart, Names, People

  John Piper (2011). “Desiring God, Revised Edition: Meditations of a Christian Hedonist”, p.48, Multnomah

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• When we pursue kingdom principles above His presence, we are looking for the kingdom without a king.

  Bill Johnson

  Kings, Principles, Kingdoms

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• If you did nothing but pursue the truth about yourself for the rest of your life, you would never run out of fresh discoveries.

  Martha Beck

  Running, Discovery, Rest Of Your Life

  Martha Beck (2008). “The Joy Diet: 10 Daily Practices for a Happier Life”, p.31, Harmony

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• The instinct of a man is to pursue everything that flies from him, and to fly from all that pursue him.

  Voltaire

  Men, Instinct

  Voltaire (2015). “Delphi Collected Works of Voltaire (Illustrated)”, p.3470, Delphi Classics

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• I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.

  Max Walker

  Years, World, Fellowship

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What exile from himself can flee? To zones, though more and more remote, Still, still pursues, where'er I be, The blight of life--the demon Thought.

  Lord Byron

  Demon, Blight, Exile

  Lord Byron (1854). “Childe Harold's pilgrimage”, p.57

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• Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold; stir more than they can quiet; fly to the end, without consideration of the means and degrees; pursue some few principles, which they have chanced upon absurdly; care not to innovate, which draws unknown inconveniences; use extreme remedies at first; and, that which doubleth all errors, will not acknowledge or retract them; like an unready horse, that will neither stop nor turn.

  Francis Bacon

  Horse, Mean, Men

  Francis Bacon, David Mallet (1740). “The Works of Francis Bacon, Baron of Verulam, Viscount St. Alban, Lord High Chancellor of England ...: With Several Additional Pieces, Never Before Printed in Any Edition of His Works. To which is Prefixed, a New Life of the Author”, p.361

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• It is good that man should accept at face value the cheats of sense and snares of flesh, and through the fogs of sentiency pursue the lures and lies of passion.

  Jack London

  Lying, Passion, Men

  Jack London (2016). “Jack London Six Pack”, p.292, Lulu.com

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• I was smart enough to know it would probably make me a salable item for the paparazzi. I knew I'd have to move to a home that had a gate. But that pearl of possibility that lives in your heart when you meet somebody you want to know more about has such a different molecular density than everything else that you have to pursue it.

  John Mayer

  Smart, Moving, Home

  PLayboy Interview, February 10, 2010.

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• A dreamer of the common dreams, A fisher in familiar streams, He chased the transitory gleams That all pursue; But on his lips the eternal themes Again were new.

  William Watson

  Dream, Gleam, Lips

  Sir William Watson, John Alfred Spender (1905). “The Poems of William Watson”

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• If I can mean to people - if I can symbolize the ability to pursue gender equality, racial equality, and to be truthful about our experiences, then, absolutely, that's what I want to be.

  Anita Hill

  Mean, People, Want

  "Anita Hill Reflects on 20 Years Since Clarence Thomas Hearings". Interview with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. October 10, 2011.

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• I used to be a huge fan of Heavy Metal magazine growing up, and I was exposed to Cobalt there and fell in love with the character and the world. I've tried to track it down and pursue it myself to make a movie out of it. Also I felt like the thing that's cool about Cobalt is it does have a culty kind of underground quality to it that I really like.

  Zack Snyder

  Growing Up, Character, Track

  Source: ca.complex.com

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• I am happiest when I am working though, when I am being creative. I realized at a very young age what I loved doing. I think it is so important for people to pursue the things that they love and not give up on their dreams.

  Josh Peck

  Dream, Giving Up, Thinking

  Source: www.movieweb.com

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• I don't have a problem working 14 hours a day and still have ears and have a brain to mix afterwards. But I don't have the same strength to actively pursue and stay enthused about things like literature and movies and a social life - things that enhance the music, and the person.

  Blake Mills

  Brain, Ears, Literature

  "Contact: Guitar Wunderkind Blake Mills". Interview with Jacob Blickenstaff, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2015.

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