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• Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

  Herbert Spencer

  Happiness, Laughter, Joy

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• My mother always gives the best advice. When I left Puerto Rico to pursue my dreams, she always supported me and said to me, 'I'm never going to cut your wings, so don't let anyone else do that to you.' That has been my philosophy through life. I want to share that valuable lesson with my little girl someday.

  Roselyn Sanchez

  Girl, Mother, Dream

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

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• We remain a young nation, but in the words of Scripture, the time has come to set aside childish things. The time has come to reaffirm our enduring spirit; to choose our better history; to carry forward that precious gift, that noble idea, passed on from generation to generation: the God-given promise that all are equal, all are free, and all deserve a chance to pursue their full measure of happiness.

  Barack Obama

  Ideas, Promise, Generations

  First Presidential Inaugural Address, Delivered 20 January 2009

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• We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

  Kim Stanley Robinson

  Dream, Cold, Ends

  Kim Stanley Robinson (2014). “Icehenge”, p.287, Macmillan

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• The true worth of a man is to be measured by the objects he pursues.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Positive, Success, Business

  Marcus Aurelius (Emperor of Rome) (1887). “The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius”

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• Relentlessly pursue perfection knowing we won't catch it, but in the process we'll achieve excellence.

  Vince Lombardi

  Knowing, Perfection, Excellence

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• He (God) is determined to pursue you because He knows the greatest joy in your life will come from His lan for you.

  Beth Moore

  Joy, Determined, Knows

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• I realized I’m not supposed to be pursuing impact, I’m supposed to be pursuing God. And when I pursue God I will have exactly as much impact as He wants me to have.

  Phil Vischer

  Impact, Want, I Realized

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• I have a big belief that whatever your passion is in life, pursue it to the fullest and try to be the best at it.

  Myles Jury

  Passion, Ufc, Mma

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• Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

  Mitch Albom

  Fearless, Unspoken Words, Haunting

  Twitter post from Aug 05, 2013

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• We're running into a lot of new problems today because of what we emphasize in this culture. The word 'success' to the average person means earning a lot of money and having a home, two cars, children in college. Success to me is entirely different to what success is to the average person.  Success is being a successful human being in terms of pursuing what you believe in. If you believe in making paintings, writing poetry, writing music. If this is what you really want, you're successful to yourself. But to be successful to your culture means to sell yourself short of what you really want

  Jacque Fresco

  Success, Music, Running

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• My parents must have done a great job. Anytime I wanted to pursue something that they weren't familiar with, that was not part of their lifestyle, they let me go ahead and do it.

  Sally Ride

  Jobs, Parent, Done

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• The Florida sun seems not much a single thing overhead but a set of klieg lights that pursue you everywhere with an even white illumination.

  John Updike

  Florida, Light, Illumination

  John Updike (2010). “Rabbit at Rest”, p.75, Random House

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• Calumny ever pursues the great, even as the winds hurl themselves on high places.

  Ovid

  Wind, Calumny, Slander

  Ovid (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ovid (Illustrated)”, p.358, Delphi Classics

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• Sometimes, to pursue a new idea, the artist must forfeit his deposit on an old idea.

  Robert Breault

  Art, Ideas, Sometimes

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• We gain no easier advantage than by relentlessly pursuing our goal while others pursue an advantage.

  Robert Breault

  Goal, Effort, Gains

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• It is the courage to make a clean breast of it in the face of every question that makes the philosopher. He must be like Sophocles' Oedipus, who, seeking enlightenment concerning his terrible fate, pursues his indefatigable inquiry even though he divines that appalling horror awaits him in the answer. But most of us carry with us the Jocasta in our hearts, who begs Oedipus, for God's sake, not to inquire further.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Philosophy, Heart, Fate

  Letter to Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, November 1819.

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• One has to see oneself through one's actions, works, and mind. Knowing the Self by the self is not as easy as writing that line. A #‎ yogi sees things in every movement he makes, maybe when practicing, maybe when teaching, or maybe when talking to people. You should have courage in your convictions and pursue what is dear to you all these years.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Teaching, Writing, Self

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• Our generation, like the one before us, must choose. Without the threat of the Cold War, without the pain of economic ruin, without the fresh memory of World War II's slaughter, it is tempting to pursue our private agendas -- to simply sit back and let history unfold. We must resist the temptation.

  William J. Clinton

  Pain, Memories, War

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• It belongs to the self-respect of intellect to pursue every tangle of thought to its final unravelment.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Self, Finals, Intellect

  ALFRED NORTH WHITEHEAD (1925). “SCIENCE AND THE MODERN WORLD”

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• In commemoration of the fact that France was our ally in securing independence the citizens of that nation joined with the citizens of the United States in placing in New York harbor an heroic statue representing Liberty enlightening the world. What course shall our nation pursue? Send the statue of Liberty back to France and borrow from England a statue of William the Conqueror?

  William Jennings Bryan

  New York, Independence, Liberty

  William Jennings Bryan, Mary Baird Bryan (1900). “The Life and Speeches of Hon. Wm. Jennings Bryan”

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• At that time I had not yet been taught the doctrine I was later to learn so hurriedly in the Lager: that man is bound to pursue his own ends by all possible means, while he who errs but once pays dearly

  Primo Levi

  Mean, Men, Survival

  Primo Levi (1996). “Survival In Auschwitz”, p.13, Simon and Schuster

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• Strange new problems are being reported in the growing generations of children whose mothers were always there, driving them around, helping them with their homework --an inability to endure pain or discipline or pursue any self-sustained goal of any sort, a devastating boredom with life.

  Betty Friedan

  Mother, Children, Pain

  "The Feminine Mystique". Book by Betty Friedan, Ch. 1 "The Problem That Has No Name", 1963.

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• When guerillas engage a stronger enemy, they withdraw when he advances, harass him when he stops, strike him when he is weary, pursue him when he withdraws.

  Mao Zedong

  Enemy, Stronger, Strategy

  Mao Tse-Tung, Zedong Mao (1961). “On Guerrilla Warfare”, p.46, University of Illinois Press

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