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Home to some of our nation's civil rights leaders, Harvard Law is not a bigoted hub of racism but a place where men and women of all races peacefully co-exist in pursuit of higher education.
Kayleigh Mcenany
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Civil Rights
Harvard
Higher Education
Hub
Men And Women
Pursuit
Racism
Education Men Women
All Races
Bigoted
Education Women Men
Peacefully
Races
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I believe that, as Americans, our freedoms come from God and not government, and include the rights enumerated in the Declaration of Independence: life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Lisa Murkowski
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United States Senator
Independence
Declaration
Liberty
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Life Happiness God
Include
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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.
Aristotle
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Philosopher
Aim
Inquiry
Pursuit
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When team members trust each other and know that everyone is capable of admitting when they're wrong, then conflict becomes nothing more than the pursuit of truth or the best possible answer.
Patrick Lencioni
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Writer
Admitting
Capable
Conflict
Members
Pursuit
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A distinguished clergyman told me that he chose the profession of a clergyman because it afforded the most leisure for literary pursuits. I would recommend to him the profession of a governor.
Henry David Thoreau
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Author
Clergymen
Leisure
Pursuit
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It is through technological innovation and the pursuit of sustainable social, economic, and ecological development that we can chart the country's path to progress and power a greener tomorrow.
Tulsi Tanti
/
Ecological
Greener
Innovation
Pursuit
Chart
Sustainable
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That honeymoon phase is so much fun in real life, when you meet and discover somebody new and fall in love and chase them. The pursuit. And that climactic final moment of ultimate togetherness.
Lucas Neff
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Actor
Fall
Falling In Love
Fun
Honeymoon
Pursuit
Real
Real Life
Togetherness
Ultimate
Life Love Moment
Chase
Discover
Meet
Moment
Phase
So Much Fun
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You don't have to be in pursuit of a body beautiful to wish yourself to be the flexuously willowy creature you once were or, failing that, just to be able to pick up something you have dropped.
Howard Jacobson
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Author
Failing
Pursuit
Creature
Dropped
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The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.
James T. Walsh
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American Politician
Abandoned
Goal
Ira
Mean
Pursuit
Struggle
Acknowledged
Armed
Fully
Inhibit
Peace Process
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Desire is the key to motivation, but it's the determination and commitment to unrelenting pursuit of your goal - a commitment to excellence - that will enable you to attain the success you seek.
Mario Andretti
/
Nascar Driver
Success
Commitment
Desire
Determination
Excellence
Goal
Motivation
Pursuit
Unrelenting
Will
Attain
Enable
Seek
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I believe that the future of humanity is in the progress of reason through science. I believe that the pursuit of truth, through science, is the divine ideal which man should propose to himself.
Emile Zola
/
Writer
Future
Science
Truth
Divine
Humanity
Propose
Pursuit
Reason
Himself
Ideal
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I look at power as the ability to get people motivated and to get them to do things that maybe they don't think are important but, in the end, are in pursuit of something greater than themselves.
Anne Sweeney
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Businesswoman
Ability
Greater
Important
Motivated
People
Pursuit
Thinking
Power Look People
In The End
Maybe
Themselves
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We smile at the ignorance of the savage who cuts down the tree in order to reach its fruit; but the same blunder is made by every person who is over eager and impatient in the pursuit of pleasure.
William Ellery Channing
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Preacher
Patience
Smile
Cutting
Fruit
Ignorance
Impatient
Pleasure
Pursuit
Tree
Blunder
Cuts
Eager
Reach
Savage
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I am not 'in pursuit of truth.' It is not my 'quarry.' I am of my human nature a thinker, and conscious of need, responsibility of thinking-speaking with truth. I do not go about hunting 'truths.'
Laura Riding
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Poet
Truth
Conscious
Human Nature
Hunting
Pursuit
Responsibility
Thinker
Truths
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Politicians in Washington work in a small, sheltered world where they lurch from crisis to crisis that they create, nurture and use as ideological triggers in their selfish pursuit of re-election.
Mike Barnicle
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Broadcaster
Crisis
Ideological
Nurture
Pursuit
Selfish
Triggers
Re-Election
Sheltered
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I want to believe that while we may sometimes read in the misguided pursuit of preserving our separation, there is a greater impulse inside us that compels us to read in search of the common heart.
Sue Monk Kidd
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Writer
Common
Greater
Impulse
Misguided
Pursuit
Separation
Inside
Compels
Preserving
Search
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In pursuit of their commercial ambitions, Huawei relied on dishonest business practices that contradict the economic principles that have allowed American companies and the United States to thrive.
Christopher A. Wray
/
Pursuit
Thrive
American Companies
Contradict
Dishonest
Practices
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The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.
Thomas Frank
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Journalist
Jobs
Administration
Cities
Description
Economic
Economic Recovery
Planners
Pursuit
Recovery
Strategy
Obama
Job Description
Nowadays
Vibrant
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In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into what we're into, provided that it's a healthy pursuit, it's a good thing.
Frank Luntz
/
Consultant
Cases
Emotion
Pursuit
Rational
Unhappy
Good Thing
In Fact
Provided
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Working in network news is not a solitary pursuit; it is the ultimate 'team sport,' in which success is derived from the collective performances of remarkable people united in purpose and dedication.
Steve Capus
/
Pursuit
Remarkable
Solitary
Ultimate
Collective
Derived
Network
Success Is
Team Sport
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Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.
Tracy Mcmillan
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Television Writer
Great Job
Pursuit
Skills
Work Great Your
Apply
Different Type
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This is our country and our home and our families. We can decide that one person's right to bear arms does not come at the expense of a neighbor's right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Joe Kennedy Iii
/
Arms
Neighbor
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Bear
Expense
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Because art as a pursuit, as a concept, as an ideal, constantly elevates one above the pragmatic, one is inclined to discuss art in heightened terminologies. For me, it is just what I do all day long.
Ralph Gibson
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Photographer
Pragmatic
Pursuit
Above
All Day
Constantly
Concept
Discuss
Ideal
Inclined
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We must recognize the fact that many Nazis, Marxists and Fascists believe passionately in their fundamental rightness, and allow nothing to hinder them from their goal in the pursuit of their mission.
Dorothy Day
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Journalist
Believe
Fascists
Fundamentals
Goal
Hinder
Pursuit
Allow
Fundamental
Mission
Passionately
Recognize
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We live in a society which on the one hand pressurizes us into the pursuit of instant gratification, and the other hand imposes on whole sectors of the population and endless deferment of fulfillment.
Terry Eagleton
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Literary Critic
Hands
Population
Pursuit
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'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
Evgeny Morozov
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Writer
Technology
Liberal Democracy
Mean
Perfection
Pursuit
Essential
Feature
Grips
Liberal
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If you watch Olivier's interviews, he has this reptilian tongue; it seems too big for his mouth. My pursuit of that became distracting, so I let it go. The thrill was finding the right pair of glasses.
Julian Sands
/
Actor
Glasses
Let It Go
Pairs
Pursuit
Thrill
Tongue
Distracting
Finding
Mouth
Pair
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I'm from a generation of women that shattered the glass ceiling. We didn't wait for doors to open. The lesson I learned is that you need to open some doors for yourself in pursuit of career advancement.
Denise Morrison
/
Executive
Advancement
Doors
Pursuit
Shattered
Open
Career
Ceiling
Generation
Glass
Wait
Learned
Lesson
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And I think detente had manifestly failed, and that the pursuit of it was encouraging Soviet expansion and rendering the world more dangerous, and especially rendering the Western world in greater peril.
Jeane Kirkpatrick
/
United States Ambassador To The United Nations
Encouraging
Detente
Expansion
Greater
Peril
Pursuit
Rendering
Soviet
Thinking
Western
Western World
World
World More Dangerous
Failed
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There was a time when 'science' meant the systematic pursuit of knowledge through experimentation and observation. But it's rapidly becoming a synonym for progressive politics and materialist philosophy.
Eric Metaxas
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Author
Experimentation
Observation
Pursuit
Synonym
Politics Science Time
Materialist
Rapidly
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I have concluded that Literature is no proper pursuit for a gentleman and that Writing ought never to be consider'd but as an elegant Accomplishment to be indulg'd in with infrequency and Discrimination.
H. P. Lovecraft
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Author
Accomplishment
Discrimination
Elegant
Ought
Pursuit
Concluded
Proper
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'Hot Pursuit,' 'Pitch Perfect 2,' 'Trainwreck,' and 'Spy' were all being done in the last year. All four of those movies I just mentioned are not rom-coms: they're all about women doing different things.
Kay Cannon
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Film Writer
Being Done
Different Things
Last Year
Pursuit
Spy
Pitch
Mentioned
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Time passed solely in the pursuit of pleasure leaves no solid enjoyment for the future; but from the hours you spend in reading and studying useful books, you will gather a golden harvest in future years.
Dorothea Dix
/
Nurse
Enjoyment
Golden
Harvest
Pursuit
Useful
Future Time Will
Gather
Leaves
Passed
Solely
Studying
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For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.
Jimmy Carter
/
39Th U.s. President
Life
Devoted
Human Rights
Liberty
Nourishment
Nuclear
Patriotic
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Resources
Rights
Spiritual
Survival
This Generation
Generation
Inhabitants
Ours
Physical
Planet
Whose
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Erdogan's persecution of his people is not simply a domestic matter. The ongoing pursuit of civil society, journalists, academics and Kurds in Turkey is threatening the long-term stability of the country.
Fethullah Gulen
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Preacher
Civil Society
Long Term
Ongoing
Persecution
Pursuit
Stability
Threatening
Academics
Domestic
Society Country People
Journalists
Turkey
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What Washington desperately needs now are citizen legislators that are dedicated to leading a free people and to maintain our God-given right to the pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Ralph Norman
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Dedicated
Legislators
Needs
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Life Happiness People
Free
Citizen
Washington
Desperately
Free People
God-Given
Leading
Maintain
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A presidential candidate's great desire is to be seen as pragmatic, and they hope their maneuvering and shifting will be seen in pursuit of some higher purpose. It doesn't mean they are utterly insincere.
Robert Dallek
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Historian
Insincere
Pragmatic
Presidential
Pursuit
Candidate
Utterly
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Actual happiness is sometimes confused with the pursuit of it; and the most mindless and crass how-tos can get jumbled in with the modestly useful, the appealingly personal, and the genuinely interesting.
Amy Bloom
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Writer
Confused
Mindless
Pursuit
Actual
Useful
Genuinely
Modestly
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The highest excellence is seldom attained in more than one vocation. The roads leading to distinction in separate pursuits diverge, and the nearer we approach the one, the farther we recede from the other.
Christian Nestell Bovee
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Distinction
Excellence
Pursuit
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People cannot be free unless they are willing to sacrifice some of their interests to guarantee the freedom of others. The price of democracy is the ongoing pursuit of the common good by all of the people.
Saul Alinsky
/
Writer
Freedom
Good
Common
Common Good
Democracy
Ongoing
Pursuit
Sacrifice
Willing
Free
Cannot
Guarantee
Interests
Price
Some
Unless
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Becoming successful is a relentless pursuit. It's good that it's that way: When it does come, you learn to know how to appreciate it, and know how lucky you are to be doing something that you love so much.
Frankie Valli
/
Singer
Pursuit
Relentless
Love Good Way
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The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.
J. Robert Oppenheimer
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Theoretical Physicist
Example
Ideas
Pursuit
Rich
Technique
Two
Touch
Bringing
Developed
New Truth
Separate
Sets
Techniques
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The Democratic Media Complex, in its pursuit of Orwellian hate-crime legislation, reparations, and sundry non-ameliorative resolutions to America's troubled racial past, pursues its victims with blood lust.
Andrew Breitbart
/
Publisher
America
Blood
Democratic
Legislation
Lust
Media
Past
Pursuit
Reparations
Complex
Racial
Resolutions
Troubled
Victims
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Even as we work to develop more sources of petroleum for the United States, we must continue our vigorous pursuit of alternative fuels, so that we can be powered by cleaner, more efficient sources of energy.
Virgil Goode
/
Virginia State Senator
Alternatives
Efficient
Energy
Petroleum
Pursuit
United States
Vigorous
Alternative
Work Energy More
Cleaner
Develop
Fuels
Powered
Sources
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I use the word 'passion' a lot when I talk to young people. In every pursuit I've been on, I've had a lot of passion behind it. It continues to motivate me every day on what I like to do and where I'm going.
Charles Schwab
/
Pursuit
Motivate
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In a way, I envy the freedom artists have. Artists can push themselves beyond their limits, in pursuit of their ideas and their vision, even if they are inhabited by demons that can also play tricks on them.
Carine Roitfeld
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Editor
Artist
Envy
Ideas
Limits
Play
Pursuit
Tricks
Vision
Artists
Beyond
Demons
Inhabited
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When Trump started belittling him, Jeb reverted to Bush form. He couldn't understand how anyone could question his noble pursuit of public service. In the face of Trump's attacks, he looked hurt and stunned.
Franklin Foer
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Journalist
Noble
Public Service
Pursuit
Stunned
Attacks
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If you're a journalist - and I think, on some level, I'm a journalist, and proud to be a journalist, or a documentarian, however you want to describe it - part of what I do has to be the pursuit of the truth.
Errol Morris
/
Film Director
Pursuit
Describe
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Whether you're shuffling a deck of cards or holding your breath, magic is pretty simple: It comes down to training, practice, and experimentation, followed up by ridiculous pursuit and relentless perseverance.
David Blaine
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Magician
Cards
Deck
Experimentation
Magic
Perseverance
Practice
Pursuit
Relentless
Ridiculous
Shuffling
Simple
Training
Pretty
Breath
Down
Followed
Holding
Whether
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We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Thomas Jefferson
/
3Rd U.s. President
Change
Equality
Happiness
Life
Smile
Freedom
Certain
Equal
Liberty
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Rights
Life Happiness Freedom
Life Happiness Men
Among
Created
Endowed
Hold
Self-Evident
Truths
Unalienable
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