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"Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim."
"Why can't I write something that would awake the dead? That pursuit is what burns most deeply."
"Relentless pursuit to find a competitive edge."
"The pursuit of knowledge is more valuable than its possession."
"No worldly pursuit compares to the joy of experiencing the change of one soul from death to life."
"Pursuits become habits. [Lat., Abeunt studia in mores.]"
"They cared for no one, they were outside humanity, and death, had it come, would only have continued their pursuit of a retreating horizon."
"The pursuit of science leads only to the insoluble."
"Nature intended me for the tranquil pursuits of science by rendering them my supreme delight."
"The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and spirits must flow. There must be courage. There are no easy ruts to get into which lead to happiness."
"Pursuits become habits."
"Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty."
"HALE, with a tasty love of intellectual pursuit"
"I'm in constant pursuit of growing and evolving."
"In the pursuit of learning, every day something is acquired. In the pursuit of Tao, every day something is dropped."
"The pursuit of happiness is such a large of concept."
"Pleasure that is its own pursuit is always bad pleasure."
"Success - To rise from the illusion of pursuit to the disillusion of possession."
"Recreation and diversion are as necessary to our well-being as the more serious pursuits of life."
"Happiness, as a pursuit, is suitable only for pigs."
