#seeks

Anyone who seeks to destroy the passions instead of controlling them is trying to play the angel. ↗

— Voltaire

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No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity. ↗

— Frank Lloyd Wright

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Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft

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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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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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He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a revolutionary whether he calls himself an anarchist or a communist. ↗

— Johann Most

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In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks. ↗

— John Muir

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The politician in my country seeks votes, affection and respect, in that order. With few notable exceptions, they are simply men who want to be loved. ↗

— Edward R. Murrow

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