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• I contend that in the kind of nonfiction I write, and that other people also pursue, anything is permissible provided the reader knows what you're taking liberties with.

  William Least Heat-Moon

  Writing, People, Liberty

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• People today distinguish between knowledge and action and pursue them separately, believing that one must know before he can act... . They say [they will wait] till they truly know before putting their knowledge into practice. Consequently to the end of their lives, they will never act and also will never know.

  Wang Yangming

  Believe, Practice, People

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• It is really important that young people find something that they want to do and pursue it with passion. I'm very passionate about filmmaking. It's what I love to do.

  Spike Lee

  Passion, People, Important

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• The mountain represents your purpose in life. You and your people will enjoy the greatest success and satisfaction if you relentlessly pursue your purpose.

  Paul G. Stoltz

  People, Mountain, Purpose

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• It was probably a mistake to pursue happiness; much better to create happiness; still better to create happiness for others. The more happiness you created for others the more would be yours-a solid satisfaction that no one could ever take away from you.

  Lloyd C. Douglas

  Happiness, Mistake, Would Be

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• The tastes and pursuits of manhood will bear on them the traces of the earlier impressions of our education. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that some portion of the neglect of science in England, may be attributed to the system of education we pursue.

  Charles Babbage

  Education, Science, May

  Charles Babbage, Anthony Hyman (1989). “Science and Reform: Selected Works of Charles Babbage”, p.116, Cambridge University Press

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• If I have learned anything in long years of introspection, it is that life requires a price if you want to be as fully alive as you can be. You need courage to pursue the truth of your life and yourself.

  Eda LeShan

  Years, Long, Needs

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• When he pretends to flee, do not pursue.

  Sun Tzu

  Sun-tzu, Gerald A. Michaelson (2001). “Sun Tzu: The Art of War for Managers; 50 Strategic Rules”, p.126, Adams Media

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• Without renouncing the support of physics, it is possible for the physiology of the senses, not only to pursue its own course of development, but also to afford to physical science itself powerful assistance.

  Ernst Mach

  Powerful, Support, Development

  Ernst Mach (1897). “Contributions to the Analysis of the Sensations”

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• It often happens that the man who pursues the dollar too diligently finds it hard to catch, but if he will pursue some other and better goal, dollars come around to see what sort of fellow he is.

  Vash Young

  Men, Goal, Dollars

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• Every nation sincerely desires peace; and all nations pursue courses which if persisted in, must make peace impossible.

  Norman Angell

  Desire, Impossible, Making Peace

  Norman Angell, Sir Norman Angell (1939). “The great illusion--now”

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• I think I was about 18 before I decided I wanted to pursue acting. I went to drama school in Western Australia when I was 19.

  Dustin Clare

  Drama, School, Thinking

  "Dustin Clare SPARTACUS: VENGEANCE Interview". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 23, 2012.

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• I moved to California not to pursue acting but to get out of Albuquerque.

  Minka Kelly

  California, Acting, Albuquerque

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• To not pursue the thing one wants would be a waste of one's life.

  Rick Bass

  Would Be, Want, Waste

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• Should I pursue a path so twisted? Should I crawl defeated and gifted?

  Patti Smith

  Unanswered Questions, Path, Twisted

  Song: Pissing in a River, Album: Radio Ethiopia

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• I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.

  Natalie Merchant

  Thinking, Musician, Imagine

  The Providence Journal-Bulletin Interview, www.imdb.com. February 13, 1996.

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• At this point in my life, I like the security of a job, while still having time for my young son and to pursue other creative work.

  Chris Noth

  Jobs, Son, Creative

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• It all has to do with art - writing, painting, things I’ve done for a long time but just never had enough time to pursue. I have poetry - things that are designed for songs, but they’re always poems first.

  Jason Newsted

  Song, Art, Writing

  "New Shoes to Fill". Interview with Erik Fong, voivod.net. April 8, 2003.

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• It has been a privilege to pursue knowledge for its own sake and to see how it might help mankind in more practical ways.

  Paul Nurse

  Privilege, Might, Sake

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• Engineering training deals with the exact sciences. That sort of exactness makes for truth and conscience. It might be good for the world if more men had that sort of mental start in life even if they did not pursue the profession.

  Herbert Hoover

  Life, Science, Men

  Herbert Hoover (1952). “Memoirs: Years of adventure, 1874-1920”

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• I'm not saying standardized tests are the worst ever, but there's an in-between and I don't think we're there yet. That's what I mean when I say I have an issue with it. There's no way a kid can learn in a class with 40 to 45 people. I had the power to get out of that system and pursue things that I wanted to do and I did that.

  Ashley Rickards

  Mean, Kids, Thinking

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

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• I can't sing but I can understand wanting to keep a balance, trying to pursue dreams, while creating a stable environment for my children.

  Gabrielle Reece

  Dream, Children, Creating

  "HoneyLine: My HoneyLine TV Interview With Kid Rock" by abrielle Reece, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 18, 2010.

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• I don't sit in the corner waiting for death: death has to pursue me. I'm going strong. I hope to reach 100 and ask for an extension, just like my grandmother did.

  Compay Segundo

  Strong, Grandmother, Waiting

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• As I started to pursue the subject more deeply I realized that walking was this wonderful meandering path through everything I was already interested in - gender politics, public space and urban life, demonstrations and parades and marches. The relationship between walking and thinking and between the mind and the body.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Thinking, Space, Mind

  "Thinking on Her Feet / Author Rebecca Solnit wrote a book about walking -- while on the move" by Sam Whiting, www.sfgate.com. May 02, 2000.

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• But on the other hand, I talked to a woman who was a working woman, and it was actually great for her, because she had her husband one week of the month and the other three weeks, while he was with his other wives, she got to pursue what she wanted to do.

  Jeanne Tripplehorn

  Husband, Hands, Wife

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