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I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.


Paul Nurse


#difficult #effort #essential #expanded #felt

I want to go to bed richer than when I woke up. The pursuit of wealth is a wonderful thing, but the thing is you have to be honest about it, you have to tell the truth.


Kevin O'Leary


#bed #go #honest #i #pursuit

In constant pursuit of money to finance campaigns, the political system is simply unable to function. Its deliberative powers are paralyzed.


John Rawls


#constant #finance #function #money #paralyzed

All our pursuits, from childhood to manhood, are only trifles of different sorts and sizes, proportioned to our years and views.


Samuel Richardson


#different #manhood #only #our #proportioned

An attitude to life which seeks fulfillment in the single-minded pursuit of wealth - in short, materialism - does not fit into this world, because it contains within itself no limiting principle, while the environment in which it is placed is strictly limited.


E. F. Schumacher


#because #contains #does #environment #fit

Manhattan is a narrow island off the coast of New Jersey devoted to the pursuit of lunch.


Raymond Sokolov


#devoted #island #jersey #lunch #manhattan

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.


Herbert Spencer


#know #never #poetry #pursuits #scientific

When I was born I became the visible corner of a folded map. The map has more than one route. More than one destination. The map that is the unfolding self is not exactly leading anywhere. The arrow that says YOU ARE HERE is your first coordinate. There is a lot that you can't change when you are a kid. But you can pack for the journey . . .


Jeanette Winterson


#life-journey #map #pursuit-of-happiness #change

Try not to be a man or woman of success, but rather a man or woman of inspiration. If you’re successful, they will flock to you for money or fame, but if you’re inspirational, they will flock to you because they love your soul and how you change theirs.


Shannon L. Alder


#aspirations #fame #goals #goodness #inspirational

The remaining chain swung down, he wrenched the door out and he was free. The last thing he heard behind him was the oncoming stomp of running feet. Now began flight, that excruciating accompaniment to both the sleep-dream and the drug-dream as well. Down endless flights of stairs that seemed to have increased decimally since he had come up them so many days before. Four, fourteen, forty - there seemed no end to them, no bottom. Round and round he went, hand slapping at the worn guard-rail only at the turns to keep from bulleting head-on into the wall each time. The clamor had come out onto a landing high above him now, endless miles above him; a thin voice came shouting down the stair-well, "There he is! See him down there?" raising the hue and cry to the rest of the pack. Footsteps started cannonading down after him, like avenging thunder from on high. They only added wings to his effortless, almost cascading waterlike flight. Like a drunk, he was incapable of hurting himself. At one turning he went off his feet and rippled down the whole succeeding flight of stair-ribs like a wriggling snake. Then he got up again and plunged ahead, without consciousness of pain or smart. The whole staircase-structure seemed to hitch crazily from side to side with the velocity of his descent, but it was really he that was hitching. But behind him the oncoming thunder kept gaining. Then suddenly, after they'd kept on for hours, the stairs suddenly ended, he'd reached bottom at last. He tore out through a square of blackness at the end of the entrance-hall, and the kindly night received him, took him to itself - along with countless other things that stalk and kill and are dangerous if crossed. He had no knowledge of where he was; if he'd ever had, he'd lost it long ago. The drums of pursuit were still beating a rolling tattoo inside the tenement. He chose a direction at random, fled down the deserted street, the wand of light from a wan street-lamp flicking him in passing, so fast did he scurry by beneath it.


Cornell Woolrich


#chased #crime-fiction #crime-thriller #noir #noir-fiction






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