#seek

To seek the highest good is to live well. ↗

— Saint Augustine

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The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else. ↗

— Frederic Bastiat

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Pride defeats its own end, by bringing the man who seeks esteem and reverence into contempt. ↗

— Henry Bolingbroke

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Do not seek for information of which you cannot make use. ↗

— Anna C. Brackett

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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumoa Lahiri

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On the screen I saw tanks rolling through dusty streets, and fallen buildings, and forests of unfamiliar trees into which East Pakistani refugees had fled, seeking safety over the Indian border. ↗

— Jhumpa Lahiri

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We cannot live by power, and a culture that seeks to live by it becomes brutal and sterile. But we can die without it. ↗

— Max Lerner

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I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic. ↗

— Steve Martin

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Join me in my quest for a greater understanding of our existence. Join me in my desire for a greater self. Join me as I seek the humility to love and understand my fellow man. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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I seek the presidency because I believe deeply in the American promise and can no longer accept the diminishing of that promise. ↗

— George McGovern

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