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• Something about Bekka and Haylee reminded her of Candace's line between ingenious and insane. Ingenuity inspired their dreams, and insanity gave them the courage to pursue them. It was something Melody wanted for herself.

  Lisi Harrison

  Dream, Insanity, Insane

  Lisi Harrison (2010). “Monster High”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• The more you pursue distractions, the less effective any particular distraction is, and so I'd had to up various dosages, until, before I knew it, I was checking my e-mail every ten minutes, and my plugs of tobacco were getting ever larger, and my two drinks a night had worsened to four, and I'd achieved such deep mastery of computer solitaire that my goal was no longer to win a game but to win two or more games in a row--a kind of meta-solitaire whose fascination consisted not in playing the cards but in surfing the streaks of wins and losses.

  Jonathan Franzen

  Loss, Winning, Night

  Jonathan Franzen (2012). “Farther Away: Essays”, p.16, Macmillan

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• Pursue something so important that even if you fail, the world is better off with you having tried.

  Tim O'Reilly

  Learning, Knowledge, Important

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• Human will is the strongest will ever created. There are those who are born to succeed and those who are determined to succeed. The former fall into it, and the latter pursue it at all costs. They won’t be denied. Nothing daunts them.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Fall, Determined To Succeed, Cost

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2011). “Invincible: The Chronicles of Nick”, p.162, St. Martin's Griffin

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• The individual's right to pursue his own vision of the best ration of pleasure to pain: utterly sacrosanct.

  David Foster Wallace

  Pain, Vision, Pleasure

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• It's true; life really is generous to those who pursue their destiny

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Destiny, Alchemist

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• If he decided to pursue Sienna...Sucking in a breath Indigo promised herself she'd warn the girl if and when the time came-because no woman should have to face that campaign unprepared.

  Nalini Singh

  Girl, Should Have, Ifs And

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.54, Penguin

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• For so sworn good or evil an oath may not be broken and it shall pursue oathkeeper and oathbreaker to the world's end.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Evil, Broken, World

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Silmarillion”, p.60, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• As a child he had grown up without a mother or even a grandmother. He had never really explored emotional relationships or marriage. He'd never been given advice on the matter. The closest he'd really come to seeing a relationship was watching Ryland Miller pursue Lily. The man had lost his mind. Nicholas had a feeling he'd joined the ranks of en losing their mind over women.

  Christine Feehan

  Mother, Children, Men

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• For how imperiously, how coolly, in disregard of all one’s feelings, does the hard, cold, uninteresting course of daily realities move on! Still we must eat, and drink, and sleep, and wake again, - still bargain, buy, sell, ask and answer questions, - pursue, in short, a thousand shadows, though all interest in them be over; the cold, mechanical habit of living remaining, after all vital interest in it has fled.

  Harriet Beecher Stowe

  Moving, Sleep, Reality

  Harriet Beecher Stowe (2001). “Life Among the Lowly”, p.402, Electric Book Company

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• ...I have so many dreams of my own, and I remember things from my childhood, from when I was a girl and a young woman, and I haven't forgotten a thing. So why did we think of Mom as a mom from the very beginning? She didn't have the opportunity to pursue her dreams, and all by herself, faced everything the era dealt her, poverty and sadness, and she couldn't do anything about her very bad lot in life other than suffer through it and get beyond it and live her life to the very best of her ability, giving her body and her heart to it completely. Why did I never give a thought to Mom's dreams?

  Shin Kyung-sook

  Girl, Mom, Dream

  FaceBook post by Kyung-sook Shin from May 09, 2015

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• Most Americans are close to total ignorance about the world. They are ignorant. That is an unhealthy condition in a country in which foreign policy has to be endorsed by the people if it is to be pursued. And it makes it much more difficult for any president to pursue an intelligent policy that does justice to the complexity of the world.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Country, Ignorance, Intelligent

  "Spokespersons of US Right 'In Most Cases Stunningly Ignorant'". Interview with Gregor Peter Schmitz, www.spiegel.de. December 06, 2010.

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• What i’m saying is, my friends, one ought to be able to let go. If a path does not please us, instead of insisting on going that specific way, of making our selfishness the guide, we ought to forsake. The books we cannot write, the films we cannot shoot, the projects we cannot develop, the jobs we cannot pursue and the people who no longer love us. Being able to let go, at times, is the most beautiful of all!

  Elif Safak

  Beautiful, Letting Go, Jobs

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• What I warn you to remember is that I am a detective. Our relationship with truth is fundamental but cracked, refracting confusingly like fragmented glass. It is the core of our careers, the endgame of every move we make, and we pursue it with strategies painstakingly constructed of lies and concealment and every variation on deception.

  Tana French

  Lying, Moving, Glasses

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, 2007.

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• The next time that boy pursues you, he better do it like a dying man looking for water in a desert. When it's the right guy, you'll know, because he'll cherish you.

  Karen Kingsbury

  Boys, Men, Water

  FaceBook post by Karen Kingsbury from Jan 14, 2017

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• And I told you, I'm not going to pursue another man's girlfriend. You want to talk honor. There it is in its purest form

  Richelle Mead

  Girlfriend, Men, Honor

  Richelle Mead (2013). “Vampire Academy: The Complete Collection”, p.1367, Penguin

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• Must it ever be thus-that the source of our happiness must also be the fountain of our misery? The full and ardent sentiment which animated my heart with the love of nature, overwhelming me with a torrent of delight, and which brought all paradise before me, has now become an insupportable torment, a demon which perpetually pursues and harrasses me.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Paradise, Delight

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.25, 谷月社

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• Every day I observe more and more the folly of judging of others by ourselves; and I have so much trouble with myself, and my own heart is in such constant agitation, that I am well content to let others pursue their own course, if they only allow me the same privilege.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Heart, Judging, Privilege

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015). “The Sorrows of Young Werther: Top Classic of German”, p.32, 谷月社

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• I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the minor deity Psyche. It was the Greek way of saying that, in spite of what it may believe, Love pursues the Soul, not the body; the Erotic desires the Psychic. If Love was clean and wholesome he wouldn't lust after Psyche.

  Stephen Fry

  Believe, Dirty, Thinking

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• Once more I realized to what an extent earthly happiness is made to the measure of man. It is not a rare bird which we must pursue at one moment in heaven, at the next in our minds. Happiness is a domestic bird found in our own courtyards.

  Nikos Kazantzakis

  Men, Bird, Heaven

  Nikos Kazantzakis (2012). “Report to Greco”, p.253, Simon and Schuster

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• Because it is a monopoly, government brings inefficiency and stagnation to most things it runs; government agencies pursue the inflation of their budgets rather than the service of their customers; pressure groups form an unholy alliance with agencies to extract more money from taxpayers for their members. Yet despite all this, most clever people still call for government to run more things and assume that if it did so, it would somehow be more perfect, more selfless, next time.

  Matt Ridley

  Running, Clever, Agency

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• At least as a single woman, I had time to pursue my own interests, read voraciously, and travel when opportunity presented.

  Tasha Alexander

  Travel, Opportunity, Single Women

  Tasha Alexander (2009). “And Only to Deceive”, p.2, Harper Collins

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• ‎It is better to pursue a hopeless hope than to give in to black despair.

  Isobelle Carmody

  Giving, Black, Despair

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• Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

  Barack Obama

  Bullying, Kids, Students

  Twitter post from Oct 22, 2010

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• Why are we here? We exist not to pursue happiness, which is fleeting, or outer accomplishment, which can always be bettered. We are here to nourish the self.

  Deepak Chopra

  Happiness, Spiritual, Self

  Deepak Chopra (2003). “Golf for Enlightenment: The Seven Lessons for the Game of Life”, Random House Large Print Publishing

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