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«The history of the world is the record of a man in quest for his daily bread and butter»
Author: Hendrick Willem Van Loon
| Keywords:
bread and butter, butter, History of the, History of the world, Our Daily Bread, quest, quest for
«Politicians trim and tack in their quest for power, but they do so in order to get the wind of votes in their sails.»
Author: Ian Gilmour
| About:
Politicians
| Keywords:
quest, quest for, tack, tacked, tacks, trim, trimmed, trimmer, trimmest, trimming, trims, votes, wind power
«The male stereotype makes masculinity not just a fact of biology but something that must be proved and re-proved, a continual quest for an ever-receding Holy Grail»
Author: Marc Feigen Fasteau
| About:
Masculinity
| Keywords:
biology, continual, grail, Holy Grail, quest, quest for, recede, recedes, receding, stereotype, stereotyped, stereotyping
«There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born'.' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
at bottom, cram, crammed, cramming, forbidden, in the beginning, like this, quest, quest for, spend-all, The Search, this one
«The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.»
Author: Dag Hammarskjold
(Statesman)
| Keywords:
destiny, inwards, journey, longest, quest, questing, quest after, quest for, source, started, The Longest Journey, The Source
«Sometimes less is more. Our quest for more, then, keeps us from it.»
«The eternal quest of the individual human being is to shatter his loneliness.»
Author: Norman Cousins
(Editor, Essayist)
| Keywords:
loneliness, quest, shatter, shattering, shatters, The Eternal
«The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.»
Author: Erich Fromm
(Philosopher, Psychoanalyst)
| About:
Uncertainty
| Keywords:
blocks, certainty, impel, impelling, impels, quest, quest after, quest for, The Quest, The Search, uncertainty, unfold
«Our demons are out own limitations, which shut us off from the realization of the ubiquity of the spirit...each of these demons is conquered in a vision quest.»
Author: Joseph Campbell
(Author, Editor, Philosopher, Teacher)
| Keywords:
conquered, demons, limitations, quest, questing, quest after, realization, realizations, shut, shut off, The Demon, The Spirit, ubiquity, vision
«Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an almost universal quest for easy answers and half-baked solutions. Nothing pains some people more than having to think.»
Author: Martin Luther King, Jr.
(Baptist Minister, Civil-Rights Leader)
| Keywords:
baked, bakes, baking, engage, half-baked, pains, quest, questing, quest after, quest for, rarely, solid, solutions, universal, willingly
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