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• For the last eight years, American policy toward Iraq has been based on the direct threat Saddam poses to international security. That threat is clear. Saddam's history of aggression leaves little doubt that he would resume his drive for regional domination and his quest for weapons of mass destruction if he had the chance.

  Sandy Berger

  Iraq, Eight, Mass Destruction

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• Told with rare honesty, My Accidental Jihad is the story of Krista Bremer's lifelong quest for insight and understanding, a search that leads her out of the Pacific surf to journalism school in North Carolina and through the complex challenges and unexpected joys of a cross-cultural marriage and family. This book is a powerfully personal account of the courage and hard work necessary to open one's heart and keep it that way.

  Maggie Shipstead

  Honesty, Book, School

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• The object of life is not happiness, but to serve God or the Grail. All of the Grail quests are to serve God. If one understands this and drops his idiotic notion that the meaning of life is personal happiness, then one will find that elusive quality immediately at hand.

  Robert A. Johnson

  Hands, Quality, Meaning Of Life

  Robert A. Johnson (1989). “He: Understanding Masculine Psychology”, Harpercollins

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• About six years ago, Life magazine ran an article on the historicity of Jesus and I was floored to find that they conceded the only evidence we have for his existence is in the Gospels. But don't take Life's word for it. In his book The Quest of the Historical Jesus, the most definitive study that's ever been done on the subject, Albert Schweitzer admitted that there isn't a shred of conclusive proof that Christ ever lived, let alone was the son of God. He concludes that one must therefore accept both on faith.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Jesus, Book, Son

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• The very discovery of the New world was the by-product of a dietary quest.

  Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

  Discovery, World, Products

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• If you are serious about your religion, if you really wish to commit yourself to the spiritual quest, you must learn how to use psychochemicals. Drugs are the religion of the twenty-first
  century. Pursuing the religious life today without using psychedelic drugs is like studying astronomy with the naked eye because that's how they did it in the first century A.D., and besides
  telescopes are unnatural.

  Timothy Leary

  Spiritual, Religious, Eye

  Timothy Leary (1968). “The Politics of Ecstasy”

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• Every actor has his own identity. I don't aspire to be Bond. My quest is to do something new, something
  different.

  Abhishek Bachchan

  Identity, Different, Actors

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• Sometimes, in the course of my hopeless quest, I would pick up and dip into one of the ordinary books that lay strewn around the castle. Whenever I did, it seemed so insipid and insubstantial that I flew into a rage and hurled it at the wall after reading the first few sentences. I was spoilt for any other form of literature, and the mental torment I endured was comparable to the agony of unrequited love compounded by the withdrawal symptoms associated with a severe addiction.

  Walter Moers

  Love, Wall, Book

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• I continue to hope and believe that the best stories and photographs are yet to occur. My quest for them will certainly require that I keep my head up and my eyes and heart open as I walk down the street.

  Peter Turnley

  Believe, Heart, Eye

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• Do not undertake a scientific career in quest of fame or money. There are easier and better ways to reach them. Undertake it only if nothing else will satisfy you; for nothing else is probably what you will receive. Your reward will be the widening of the horizon as you climb. And if you achieve that reward you will ask no other.

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin

  Careers, Horizon, Rewards

  Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.227, Cambridge University Press

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• Without a quest, life is quickly reduced to bleak black and wimpy white, a diet too bland to get anybody out of bed in the morning. A quest fuels our fire. It refuses to let us drift downstream gathering debris.

  Charles R. Swindoll

  Morning, Fire, White

  Charles R. Swindoll (2005). “Day by Day with Charles Swindoll”, p.286, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.

  Hendrik Willem van Loon

  Men, History, Records

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• The intellectual quest is exquisite like pearls and coral, But it is not the same as the spiritual quest. The spiritual quest is on another level altogether, Spiritual wine has a subtler taste. The intellect and the senses investigate cause and effect. The spiritual seeker surrenders to the wonder.

  Rumi

  Spiritual, Wine, Intellectual

  Rumi (2014). “'Another city'. a selectionf of poems from the Persian”, p.117, Lulu.com

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• I think that's the mother and father of all cop-outs. It's an honest scientific quest to discover where this apparent improbability comes from. Now [Francis] Collins says, "Well, God did it. And God needs no explanation because God is outside all this." Well, what an incredible evasion of the responsibility to explain. Scientists don't do that. Scientists say, "We're working on it. We're struggling to understand."

  Richard Dawkins

  Mother, Father, Struggle

  Source: inters.org

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• The United States is prepared really to be engaged in the quest to get people in the world the dignities that they seek today, the social justice that they feel they're deprived of, and the common solution to global problems.

  Zbigniew Brzezinski

  Justice, People, World

  Source: www.nytimes.com

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• You must go in quest of yourself, and you will find yourself again only in the simple and forgotten things.

  Carl Jung

  Simple, Forgotten Things, Finding Yourself

  Carl Gustav Jung, Meredith Sabini (2002). “The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung”, p.6, North Atlantic Books

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• It's easy to record songs. Anyone can make a track on garage band. I've been on the search to find that incredibly authentic place of sound and intention that only I can bring. Everyone has their own expression. I'm still on that quest and I hope to always be.

  Grace Kelly

  Song, Expression, Track

  Source: www.axs.com

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• I definitely don't have a music industry goal because I've done that and completed that work. My quest is to find new platforms for music to live. Once we do that and find different ways of getting music to people, whether that's 5000 or 1 million people, I'll feel successful. I want to make sure I'm adding something to the marketplace, so that's my goal.

  Chuck Harmony

  Successful, People, Goal

  Source: youknowigotsoul.com

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• My quest to find a great role for myself started long before this film [ "Our Brand Is Crisis"]came around.

  Sandra Bullock

  Long, Roles, Film

  Source: acttwomagazine.com

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• No matter what tricks you use or what decisions you make, go easy on yourself as someone who's on a never-ending quest for improvement.

  Chris Hardwick

  Decisions You Make, Use, Matter

  Chris Hardwick (2011). “The Nerdist Way: How to Reach the Next Level (In Real Life)”, p.52, Penguin

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• You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world.

  J. B. Smoove

  Littles, World, Little Things

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• This traditionally happens in Russia and in every other undemocratic country as well - the quest for a scapegoat won't be long, either. The easiest way to find a scapegoat is to ascribe that role to former governments.

  Garry Kasparov

  Country, Russia, Government

  Source: www.rferl.org

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• If war stems from unmet needs related to male adolescent ritual, that's something that we need to examine. I'm interested in the possibility of simply getting rid of war. I'd be no more willing to let go of that than to let go of the possibility of eradicating cancer. That's not to say I'm certain we can, but I am willing to use any energy at all in the quest.

  Jaron Lanier

  Letting Go, War, Cancer

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• I'm reading Hans Kummer's "In Quest of the Sacred Baboon." It's wonderful. It's a scientist's journal about baboons, but it relates to the search for human origin.

  Stephen Greenblatt

  Reading, Sacred, Wonderful

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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• A lot of things create a distraction, and when you're on a quest as a football team you want to limit distractions. I'm very much on board with that because I am a football player, and things can be distracting. We have 53 people that we have to make sure aren't distracted, because we only have 16 turns to do it, so every one matters so much.

  Andrew Hawkins

  Football, Team, Player

  "'People Told Me to Shut Up and Play Football'". "Hang Up and Listen" with Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca, www.slate.com. July 18, 2016.

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