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• SETI is probably the most important quest of our time , and it amazes me that governments and corporations are not supporting it sufficiently.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Government, Important, Corporations

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• Washing the Dead is an illuminating and intricately layered novel about the complicated legacies that pass from mother to daughter, and about the ways that understanding our own history helps make us who we are. Michelle Brafman is an insightful writer who never falters or flinches in her quest to uncover the hearts of her characters.

  Carolyn Parkhurst

  Daughter, Mother, Heart

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• I resolved from the beginning of my quest that I would not be misled by sentiment and desire into beliefs for which there was no good evidence.

  Bertrand Russell

  Desire, Belief, Misled

  Bertrand Russell, Andrew G. Bone (2005). “Détente Or Destruction, 1955-57”, p.83, Psychology Press

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• Quests are a huge inconvenience. Don't let anyone tell you differently, even if that person has experience. The problem is that people forget the pain and aggravation as soon as the quest ends successfully, and then they remember only the glorious parts. In this way quests are a bit like childbirth, even to the point of saying that quests often give birth to glory. Maybe.

  Amy Neftzger

  Pain, Aggravation, People

  Amy Neftzger (2013). “The Orphanage of Miracles: The Kingdom Wars: Book One”, p.13, Field of Gold Publishing, Inc.

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• If flurries be the food of quests, snow on.

  Ian Doescher

  Snow, Ifs

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• In the ardor of his enthusiasm, a youth set forth in quest of a man of whom he might take counsel as to his future, but after long search and many disappointments, he came near relinquishing the pursuit as hopeless, when suddenly it occurred to him that one must first be a man to find a man, and profiting by this suggestion, he set himself to the work of becoming himself the man he had been seeking so long and fruitlessly.

  Amos Bronson Alcott

  Disappointment, Long, Might

  Amos Bronson Alcott (1877). “Table-talk”

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• Love is the only way of knowledge, which in the act of union answers my quest. In the act of loving, of giving myself, in the act of penetrating the other person, I find myself, I discover myself, I discover us both, I discover man.

  Erich Fromm

  Love Is, Men, Giving

  Erich Fromm (2013). “The Art of Loving”, p.36, Open Road Media

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• I think that a lot of people who like training with guns are probably drawn to it not only for practical reasons, but also in that same restless quest for physical excellence that draws people to a martial arts dojo.

  Jonathan Gottschall

  Art, Gun, Thinking

  "A Talk With The Savage English Professor". Interview with Sam Harris, www.thedailybeast.com. March 5, 2015.

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• We search the world for truth; we cull The good, the pure, the beautiful, From all old flower fields of the soul; And, weary seeker of the best, We come back laden from out quest, To find that all the sages said Is in the Book our mothers read.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Mother, Flower

  John Greenleaf Whittier (1873). “The Complete Poetical Works of John Greenleaf Whittier”, p.342

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• I'm always on the quest for something delicious and healthful.

  Joely Fisher

  Delicious

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

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• If the game designer produces more content than he can consume per month, some fraction of the people will say more quests, more tests, more challenges, more whatever, and they will be compelled by it.

  Max Levchin

  Games, People, Challenges

  "Davos Interviews: Max Levchin Says Slide Now Makes Almost All Of Its Money From Virtual Goods". Interview with Erick Schonfeld, techcrunch.com. February 1, 2010.

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• Skepticism is essential to the quest for knowledge, for it is in the seedbed of puzzlement that genuine inquiry takes root. Without skepticism, we may remain mired in unexamined belief systems that are accepted as sacrosanct yet have no factual basis in reality.

  Paul Kurtz

  Reality, Roots, Essentials

  Paul Kurtz “Skepticism and Humanism: The New Paradigm”, Transaction Publishers

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• It is love which made all this. War which protects it. With love comes responsibility and possibility, fear and hopes, quests and suffering.

  Carrie Jones

  War, Responsibility, Suffering

  Carrie Jones (2011). “Entice”, p.229, A&C Black

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• Serendipity is the way to make discoveries, by accident but also by sagacity, of things one is not in quest of. Based on experience, knowledge, it is the creative exploitation of the unforeseen.

  Adrian Bejan

  Discovery, Creative, Serendipity

  "Constructal Theory of Social Dynamics". Book by Adrian Bejan and Gilbert W. Merkx, 2007.

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• Why does man freeze to death trying to reach the North Pole? Why does man drive himself to suffer the steam and heat of the Amazon? Why does he stagger his mind with the mathematics of the sky? Once the question mark has arisen in the human brain the answer must be found, if it takes a hundred years. A thousand years.

  Walter Reisch

  Men, Sky, Years

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• In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.

  Suzanne Gordon

  Religious, Drama, Character

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• Passivity is the dragon every woman has to murder in her quest for independence.

  Jill Johnston

  Passivity Is, Dragons, Independence

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• It is almost a guarantee that in the pursuit of security you will become more insecure. Inherent in the quest for security is its undoing.

  Eve Ensler

  Insecure, Guarantees That, Undoing

  Eve Ensler (2006). “Insecure at Last: Losing It in Our Security-Obsessed World”, p.195, Villard

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• I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.

  Isabelle Eberhardt

  Spiritual, Fire, Self

  Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated

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• It was a feature peculiar to the colonial wars of North America, that the toils and dangers of the wilderness were to be encountered, before the adverse hosts could meet. A wide, and, apparently, an impervious boundary of forests, severed the possessions of the hostile provinces of France and England. The hardy colonist, and the trained European who fought at his side, frequently expended months in struggling against the rapids of the streams, or in effecting the rugged passes of the mountains, in quest of an opportunity to exhibit their courage in a more martial conflict.

  James F. Cooper

  War, Struggle, Book

  "The Last of the Mohicans". Book by James F. Cooper, 1826.

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• It is the rare architect who does not hope in his heart to design a great building and for whom the quest is not a quiet, consuming passion.

  Ada Louise Huxtable

  Passion, Heart, Design

  Ada Louise Huxtable (1986). “The Tall Building Artistically Reconsidered: The Search for a Skyscraper Style”, Pantheon

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• My visual quest is driven by a desire to create a universe capable of supporting feelings and ideas.

  Jerry Uelsmann

  Ideas, Feelings, Desire

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• The quest for meaning is the key to mental health and human flourishing

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Keys, Mental Health, Flourishing

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.120, Beacon Press

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• Serendipity... You will understand it better by the derivation than by the definition. I once read a silly fairy tale, called 'The Three Princes of Serendip': as their Highnesses traveled, they were always making discoveries, by accidents and sagacity, of things which they were not in quest of.

  Horace Walpole

  Silly, Discovery, Serendipity

  Letter to Horace Mann, 28 Jan. 1754. Coinage of the word serendipity.

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• Laziness begat wearisomeness, and this put men in quest of diversions, play and company, on which however it is a constant attendant; he who works hard, has enough to do with himself otherwise.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Hard Work, Men, Play

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