#seeks

Towering genius disdains a beaten path. It seeks regions hitherto unexplored. ↗

— Abraham Lincoln

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Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone. ↗

— Rosa Luxemburg

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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both. ↗

— Horace Mann

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The essential quality of an animal is that it seeks its own living, whereas a vegetable has its living brought to it. ↗

— Henry Mayhew

#brought #essential #living #own #quality

Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward. ↗

— Thomas Merton

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He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense. ↗

— Plautus

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But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power. ↗

— Alan Paton

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You don't really get to pick and chose what you would like to be doing. But I've been very fortunate, and I think water seeks its own level. You do gravitate towards things that you would get off on. ↗

— Bill Paxton

#chose #doing #fortunate #get #gravitate

He that does good for good's sake seeks neither paradise nor reward, but he is sure of both in the end. ↗

— William Penn

#does #end #good #in the end #neither

I call on the Iranian people: it is not too late to replace the corrupt regime and return to your glorious Persian heritage, a heritage of culture and values and not of bombs and missiles... How can a nation allow a regime to instill fear, take away the people's freedom and shock the young generation that seeks its way out of the dictatorial Iran. ↗

— Shimon Peres

#away #bombs #call #corrupt #culture