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• I happened to go to a school when I was a kid and that's all we did, pursue our own interests. It was kind of structured so you ended up knowing everything you were supposed to know, arithmetic, Latin, whatever it was. But almost always it was under your own initiative.

  Noam Chomsky

  Latin, School, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Eliminating wickedness is a different project from eliminating violence. Eliminating violence - the destruction associated with wickedness - is a practical program that I'm very willing to pursue.

  Jaron Lanier

  Different, Wickedness, Violence

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• You're not going to have any pension or health care from those $60 nights at you name the club. But I think you do this because you have to do it. You pursue any art form because you need it. Because you love it.

  Jon Gordon

  Art, Night, Thinking

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• Younger theologians will continue to pursue and understand truth rather than deconstructing it, as a lot of their elders seemed to want to do.

  George Weigel

  Want, Theologian, Elders

  Source: eppc.org

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• With the rise of capitalism, it became more obvious that people pursue individual self-interest. The great nationalist in Italy, Giuseppe Mazzini, a wonderful philosopher, said that we need the nation. We need something that people can lean on, from which they can then reach out to the whole world. The idea of all humanity is too vague. It can't motivate human aspiration in a reliable way.

  Martha C. Nussbaum

  Self, Ideas, People

  Source: www.neh.gov

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• If you enjoy reading, writing, learning, and sharing what you have learned, don't hesitate to look for a life where you can continue to do those things. It could be as a scientist, an educator, an editor, a journalist, the founder of an organization. You only live once, and it is a tragedy if you deny yourself these options without trying to pursue them.

  Howard Gardner

  Reading, Writing, Editors

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• Don't assume that the way that one searches and researches is the same from one era to another - it isn't. In the 19th century, most research was done by amateurs: either individuals who were rich or individuals who had a day job. In the 20th century, most researchers worked at universities or think tanks and received money from the government or from foundations to pursue their work. In our time, the sources of support and the locations for research may be quite different.

  Howard Gardner

  Jobs, Thinking, Government

  Source: howardgardner.com

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• I feel like I'm not living a life different than anyone else. You know, I live in a house with 5 kids and a wife, but I also travel on the road with a band of brothers, just doing life. I am a member of a church, but it's almost like it's a little church on our bus. It's about trying to pursue God and stay faithful to Him in this crazy world.

  TobyMac

  Brother, Crazy, Kids

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• I'd tell any girl who continues to love gymnastics enough to want pursue a college scholarship to keep pushing yourself 100% in the gym every single day.

  Gabby Douglas

  Girl, Gymnastics, College

  Source: pridepublishinggroup.com

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• I tell kids to pursue their basketball dreams, but I tell them to not let that be their only dream.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Motivational, Basketball, Dream

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• High school dropouts are forfeiting their opportunity to pursue the American Dream.

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

  Dream, School, Opportunity

  "Transitioning From Athlete To AuthorHas Opened A Colorful New World". Blivin, J., kareemabduljabbar.com. June 19, 2012.

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• I lived the true American dream, because I was able to pursue what I set as my goals at a very young age.

  Mario Andretti

  Dream, Goal, Age

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

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• I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue.

  Alec Baldwin

  Two, People, Political

  "Alec Baldwin: The Accidental Actor". Interview with Lawrence Grobel, movieline.com. May 1, 1994.

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• It's about pursuing it rather than waiting to see what comes along. That's partly because I found myself getting typecast, as everyone does unless they pursue roles that are very different from what they've done before.

  Christian Bale

  Waiting, Roles, Done

  "Christian Bale: The Actor Is on a Fantastic Voyage". Interview with Graham Fuller, www.interviewmagazine.com. 2001.

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• Given that I can't sing like Freddie Mercury, obviously I'm not going to pursue it as a career. What would be the point?

  Kate Beckinsale

  Careers, Would Be, Mercury

  "Kate Beckinsale Is the Sexiest Woman Alive 2009" by Tom Chiarella, www.esquire.com. October 02, 2009.

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• A book is good company. It is full of conversation without loquacity. It comes to your longing with full instruction, but pursues you never.

  Henry Ward Beecher

  Book, Longing, Good Company

  Henry Ward Beecher (1862). “Eyes and Ears”, p.292

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• The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Religion, Asceticism, Earth

  Jeremy Bentham (1996). “The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham: An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation”, p.21, Clarendon Press

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• If we believe in a God at all, we must surely ascribe to him perfection of wisdom and perfection of goodness; we are then forced to conceive of Him - however strange it may sound to those who believe, not only without seeing but also without thinking - as without will, because He must always necessarily pursue the course which is wisest and best.

  Annie Besant

  Believe, Thinking, Perfection

  Annie Besant (2012). “The Theosophical Writings of Annie Besant”, p.223, Jazzybee Verlag

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• Everybody pursues their national interests. The only one who gets blamed for it is the United States.

  John Bolton

  United States, Interest, States

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• When a man wants to relax, he will slob out and really relax. Or he will pursue a hobby - anything from building models to watching sport.

  Julie Burchill

  Sports, Men, Relax

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• I was going to buy a van and move to LA so I could secretly pursue acting without any of my friends knowing.

  Steve Buscemi

  Moving, Knowing, Acting

  "New Again: Steve Buscemi". Interview with Brooke Smith, www.interviewmagazine.com. October, 1996.

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• We believe in a flexible union of free member states who share treaties and institutions and pursue together the ideal of co-operation. To represent and promote the values of European civilisation in the world. To advance our shared interests by using our collective power to open markets. And to build a strong economic base across the whole of Europe.

  David Cameron

  Strong, Believe, Europe

  David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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• If you have only one passion in life - football - and you pursue it to the exclusion of everything else, it becomes very dangerous. When you stop doing this activity it is as though you are dying. The death of that activity is a death in itself.

  Eric Cantona

  Football, Passion, Dying

  "The player". Interview with Amelia Gentleman, www.theguardian.com. September 26, 2003.

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• Most people wait for the muse to turn up. That's terribly unreliable. I have to sit down and pursue the muse by attempting to work.

  Nick Cave

  People, Waiting, Down And

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• If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will, he will reach them in spite of all obstacles.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Leadership, Military, Ambition

  Carl von Clausewitz (2012). “Principles of War”, p.65, Courier Corporation

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