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• The need of reason is not inspired by the quest for truth but by the quest for meaning. And truth and meaning are not the same. The basic fallacy , taking precedence over all specific metaphysical fallacies, is to interpret meaning on the model of truth.

  Hannah Arendt

  Needs, Inspired, Reason

  Hannah Arendt (1981). “The Life of the Mind”, p.31, HMH

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• Christ has meant everything to our marriage. It was my commitment to Christ and the words from my grandmother that made me stick with Phil [Robertson] when there wasn't much to hold on to. How has Phil changed? Do you have a year to hear about it? His love for the outdoors, his pioneer spirit, and his quest for adventure has not changed. But his heart has been turned inside out. He's a new man in every way that involves relationships.

  Kay Robertson

  Heart, Adventure, Commitment

  Interview with Emily Whitten, world.wng.org. December 19, 2013.

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• I copied everything I did in Galaxy Quest from Bill Paxton in Aliens, I owe him some credit.

  Sam Rockwell

  Credit, Bills, Aliens

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• It must be conceded that a theory has an important advantage if its basic concepts and fundamental hypotheses are 'close to experience,' and greater confidence in such a theory is certainly justified. There is less danger of going completely astray, particularly since it takes so much less time and effort to disprove such theories by experience. Yet more and more, as the depth of our knowledge increases, we must give up this advantage in our quest for logical simplicity in the foundations of physical theory.

  Albert Einstein

  Giving Up, Knowledge, Science

  Albert Einstein (2010). “Ideas And Opinions”, p.349, Broadway Books

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• A Tribe Called Quest music was so inclusive, so conscious, it brought such a community together.

  Michael Rapaport

  Community, Together, Tribes

  "Actor-director Michael Rapaport". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. July 7, 2011.

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• The bigger point here is that golf is a good metaphor for one's life. The challenge of golf for me is trying to learn new rules. It's something you always have to work at; you don't get perfect at golf. It's the never-ending quest for betterment.

  Morgan Freeman

  Golf, Perfect, Challenges

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• Mine is a quiet exploration—a quest for new meanings in color, texture and design. Even though I sometimes portray scenes of poor and struggling people, it is a great joy to paint.

  Lois Mailou Jones

  Art, Struggle, Color

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• Jon Land writes great fiction, and Betrayal reads like the best of it. The fact that it's true makes the story all the more riveting. . . . A sobering indictment of our law enforcement system and one man's relentless quest to see justice done.

  Robert Leuci

  Betrayal, Writing, Men

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• Every writing career starts as a personal quest for sainthood, for self-betterment. Sooner or later, and as a rule quite soon, a man discovers that his pen accomplishes a lot more than his soul.

  Joseph Brodsky

  Writing, Men, Self

  Joseph Brodsky (2011). “Less Than One: Selected Essays”, p.158, Penguin UK

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• Life begins as a quest of the child for the man, and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

  Sam Ewing

  Happiness, Success, Children

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• Science and religion...are friends, not foes, in the common quest for knowledge. Some people may find this surprising, for there's a feeling throughout our society that religious belief is outmoded, or downright impossible, in a scientific age. I don't agree. In fact, I'd go so far as to say that if people in this so-called 'scientific age' knew a bit more about science than many of them actually do, they'd find it easier to share my views.

  John Polkinghorne

  Religious, Knowledge, Science

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• Maybe some of my quest for success comes from Joan of Arc but theres no conscious part of Catholicism in my life.

  Joan Van Ark

  Conscious, Arcs, Catholicism

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• When a dancer comes onstage, he is not just a blank slate that the choreographer has written on.  Behind him he has all the decisions he has made in life. Each time, he has chosen, and in what he is onstage, you see the result of those choices.  You are looking at the person he is, and the person who, at this point, he cannot help but be  Exceptional dancers, in my experience, are also exceptional people, people with an attitude toward life, a kind of quest, and an internal quality.  They know who they are, and they show this to you, willingly.

  Mikhail Baryshnikov

  Attitude, People, Choices

  "Loners". www.newyorker.com. December 12, 2005.

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• What is the right of the huntsman to the forest of a thousand miles over which he has accidentally ranged in quest of prey? Shall the fields and vallies, which a beneficent God has formed to teem with the life of innumerable multitudes, be condemned to everlasting barrenness?

  John Quincy Adams

  History, Fields, Forests

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• We may stumble, but always there is that eternal voice, forever whispering within our ear, that thing which causes the eternal quest, that thing which forever sings and sings.

  Ernest Holmes

  Voice, Forever, Eternal Love

  Ernest Holmes (1998). “The Science of Mind: The Definitive Edition”, p.11, Penguin

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• All explorers are seeking something they have lost. It is seldom that they find it, and more seldom still that the attainment brings them greater happiness than the quest.

  Arthur C. Clarke

  Happiness, Appreciation, Lost

  "The City and the Stars". Book by Arthur C. Clarke, June 1956.

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• Characters tend to be either for or against the quest. If they assist it, they are idealized as simply gallant or pure; if they obstruct it, they are characterized as simply villainous or cowardly. Hence every typical character...tends to have his moral opposite confronting him, like black and white pieces in a chess game.

  Northrop Frye

  Character, Black And White, Opposites

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• Most people have come to prefer certain of lifes experiences and deny and reject others, unaware of the value of the hidden things that may come wrapped in plain and even ugly paper. In avoiding all pain and seeking comfort at all costs, we may be left without intimacy or compassion; in rejecting change and risk we often cheat ourselves of the quest; in denying our suffering we may never know our strength or our greatness

  Rachel Naomi Remen

  Pain, Greatness, Compassion

  Rachel Naomi Remen (2006). “Kitchen Table Wisdom: Stories that Heal, 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.71, Penguin

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• Let none turn over books, or roam the stars in quest of God, who sees him not in man.

  Johann Kaspar Lavater

  God, Stars, Book

  "Aphorisms on Man". Book by Johann Kaspar Lavater, No. 398, 1788.

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• The Wikks are regular kids given a Galactic size challenge. Readers will follow Oliver, Tiffany, and twins, Mason and Austin as they trek through eerie catacombs, mysterious ruins, and creepy castles that defy imagination. One part Indiana Jones, a handful of Swiss Family Robinson, and some Intergalactic excitement, the Quest for Truth is a riveting tale of just how far mankind will go for the ultimate prize.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Kids, Eerie, Imagination

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• Moshe Sluhovsky's fascinating study links spirit possession, exorcism, and mystical practice in early modern Europe. Women and men, healers and priestly exorcisers are caught up in a new quest for truth and introspection as they try to figure out whether these dramas of body and soul come from the devil or God. A stunning feat of scholarship and interpretation.

  Natalie Zemon Davis

  Drama, Men, Europe

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• I will leave no stone unturned in my quest - and that quest will be relentless - to try and get Liverpool back on the map again as a successful football club.

  Brendan Rodgers

  Football, Successful, Trying

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