#sought

Temptations come, as a general rule, when they are sought. ↗

— Margaret Oliphant

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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society. ↗

— Ibrahim Babangida

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We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation. ↗

— Dean Acheson

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Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence. ↗

— Abigail Adams

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Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level. ↗

— Francis Arinze

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The deeper the experience of an absence of meaning - in other words, of absurdity - the more energetically meaning is sought. ↗

— Vaclav Havel

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Capacity never lacks opportunity. It cannot remain undiscovered because it is sought by too many anxious to use it. ↗

— Jacqueline Cochran

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Everywhere I have sought rest and not found it, except sitting in a corner by myself with a little book. ↗

— Arthur Helps

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Well, I actually first got into music as a small child, and as I became a teen, I sought out making money from music, weather that was singing lounge gigs, backup in studios, or weddings. ↗

— Chantal Kreviazuk

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In the first place, when there is a policy of intentional aggression, inspired by a desire to get possession of the territory or the trade of another country, right or wrong, a pretext is always sought. ↗

— Elihu Root

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