#pursuit

The decline of manners, the cynical pursuit without shame or restraint of personal advantage and of money characterizes our times, not without exceptions, of course, but more than we ought to be comfortable with. ↗

— J. Irwin Miller

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Many are stubborn in pursuit of the path they have chosen, few in pursuit of the goal. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The People have a right to the Truth as they have a right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. ↗

— Frank Norris

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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

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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

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

— John Rawls

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Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness. ↗

— Godfrey Reggio

#aggression #certainty #comes #form #gone

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

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

— Herbert Spencer

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Technique is the basis of every pursuit. If you're a sportsman or you're a singer or a swimmer, well that comes under sport but you have to develop a basic technique to know what you're doing at any given time. ↗

— Joan Sutherland

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