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Letter "P" » pursuit
«I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.»
Author: Barry Goldwater
(Politician, Senator)
| Keywords:
defense, extremism, justice, liberty, moderation, pursuit, remind, vice, virtue, with moderation
«There is certainly no absolute standard of beauty. That precisely is what makes its pursuit so interesting.»
«There is no such thing as the pursuit of happiness, but there is the discovery of joy»
Author: Joyce Grenfell
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Discovery
| Keywords:
discovery, Discovery of, pursuit, The Discovery, The Pursuit of Happiness
«I believe all suffering is caused by ignorance. People inflict pain on others in the selfish pursuit of their happiness or satisfaction. Yet true happiness comes from a sense of peace and contentment, which in turn must be achieved through the cultiv»
Author: Dalai Lama
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Pain
| Keywords:
caused, contentment, inflict, inflicting, in turn, pursuit, satisfaction, selfish
«Lies are essential to humanity. They are perhaps as important as the pursuit of pleasure and moreover are dictated by that pursuit.»
«Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
| Keywords:
date from, dating, defines, humans, irrational, lotteries, phenomenally, principle, pursuit, unlikely, willingness
«Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs»
Author: Scott Adams
(Cartoonist)
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defines, humans, irrational, phenomenally, pursuit, unlikely, willingness
«Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal.»
«There is not in the world so toilsome a trade as the pursuit of fame; life concludes before you have so much as sketched your work.»
Author: Jean de la Bruyere
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concludes, concluding, fame, pursuit, sketch, sketched, sketches, toilsome, trade
«My great mistake, the fault for which I can't forgive myself, is that one day I ceased my obstinate pursuit of my own individuality.»
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