#seek

Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic. ↗

— Bertrand Russell

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I'm not seeking out genre films, but this just came my way, and Miramax was good enough to add a role for me because we wanted the chance to work together. ↗

— Jeri Ryan

#because #came #chance #enough #films

Anyone who seeks to be involved in politics should join hands with America. ↗

— Muqtada al Sadr

#anyone #hands #involved #join #politics

We say nothing essential about the cathedral when we speak of its stones. We say nothing essential about Man when we seek to define him by the qualities of men. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

#cathedral #define #essential #him #man

He only seems to me to live, and to make proper use of life, who sets himself some serious work to do, and seeks the credit of a task well and skillfully performed. ↗

— Sallust

#himself #life #live #make #me

It is like a voyage of discovery into unknown lands, seeking not for new territory but for new knowledge. It should appeal to those with a good sense of adventure. ↗

— Frederick Sanger

#appeal #discovery #good #good sense #into

Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium. ↗

— Nathalie Sarraute

#defends #equilibrium #itself #morbid #organism

He who has religion will speak poetry. But philosophy is the tool with which to seek and discover religion. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

#philosophy #poetry #religion #seek #speak

On the Day of Atonement, Jews are commanded to seek forgiveness from the people we have hurt. ↗

— Laura Schlessinger

#commanded #day #forgiveness #hurt #jews

The attacks in Jordan, just like those before it in Indonesia, Egypt, Spain and the United States, demonstrate that terrorism does not discriminate by race, ethnicity or region. Instead, terrorists indiscriminately target those seeking to live a peaceful, loving and free life. ↗

— Allyson Schwartz

#before #demonstrate #discriminate #does #egypt