#pursuit

A wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circlue of our felicities. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#another #bread #close #earned #free

If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations. ↗

— Alfred Russel Wallace

#back #blind #certainly #considerations #done

I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Victoria Woodhull

#come #declare #entitled #happiness #i

A rejection is nothing more than a necessary step in the pursuit of success. ↗

— Bo Bennett

#necessary #nothing #pursuit #rejection #step

There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#pursuit #source #such #truth

I attribute the little I know to my not having been ashamed to ask for information, and to my rule of conversing with all descriptions of men on those topics that form their own peculiar professions and pursuits. ↗

— John Locke

#ask #attribute #been #conversing #descriptions

My dad was an engineer and so I had this picture of science and technology and pursuits of the mind as being more impressive than artistic pursuits, which I saw a as kind of frivolous. ↗

— Scott McCloud

#being #dad #engineer #frivolous #had

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent. ↗

— Preston Manning

#country #founded #only #pursuit #relentless

I use the film industry as a pleasure for work and that kind of thing and it's not a pursuit to make me feel happy in my life. ↗

— Thandie Newton

#film #film industry #happy #i #industry

And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object. ↗

— Walter Pater

#age #ardent #art #century #consecrated