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• It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

  Denis Waitley

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• I and my colleagues here have been engaged in the pursuit of knowledge.

  Frederick Sanger

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  How many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!

  Walter Benjamin

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  Tags in Revealed, Pursuit

• The pursuit of perfection often impedes improvement.

  George Will

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• The pursuit of truth will set you free; even if you never catch up with it.

  Clarence Darrow

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• The pursuit of approval usually ends in disaster.

  Chris Morris

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  Religion is a temper, not a pursuit.

  Harriet Martineau

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• The pursuit of pretty formulas and neat theorems can no doubt quickly degenerate into a silly vice, but so can the quest for austere generalities which are so very general indeed that they are incapable of application to any particular.

  Eric Temple Bell

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  What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

  George Bernard Shaw

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• Just stop for a minute and you’ll realize you’re happy just being. I think it’s the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it’s right here.

  James Hillman

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• The pursuit of beauty is much more dangerous nonsense than the pursuit of truth or goodness, because it affords a stronger temptation to the ego.

  Northrop Frye

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  Tags in Pursuit, Nonsense

• The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble.

  Benjamin Disraeli

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• I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

  William Carey

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• When drawings of the main buildings I have designed in the last five years are juxtaposed, the fact that they all involve the pursuit of certain configurations is obvious to anyone.

  Yoshio Taniguchi

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• And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.

  Walter Horatio Pater

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• Perfectionism is not a quest for the best. It is a pursuit of the worst in ourselves, the part that tells us that nothing we do will ever be good enough – that we should try again.

  Julia Cameron

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