#pursuit

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I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?'


Brian Eno


#else #front #i #i think #microphone

While I gave up God a long time ago, I never shook the habit of wanting to believe in something. So I replaced my creed of everlasting life with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.


Sarah Vowell


#believe #creed #everlasting #gave #god

I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.


William Weld


#happiness #helping #i #i think #major

The pursuit of peace and progress cannot end in a few years in either victory or defeat. The pursuit of peace and progress, with its trials and its errors, its successes and its setbacks, can never be relaxed and never abandoned.


Dag Hammarskjold


#abandoned #cannot #defeat #either #end

The 'EU in a Nutshell' is a miscellany of facts and anecdotes about the system which rules us. It's a book you can delve into in pursuit of a particular fact, or crack open for entertainment at virtually any page.


Daniel Hannan


#anecdotes #any #book #crack #delve

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.


Robert Herrick


#activity #alive #be happy #energy #feat

We have a history of gender and racial bias on our court that continues to undermine the system. Excluding individuals based on race is antagonistic to the pursuit of justice.


Anita Hill


#based #bias #continues #court #excluding

Democracy is the common pursuit of mankind, and all countries must earnestly protect the democratic rights of the people.


Jinato Hu


#countries #democracy #democratic #earnestly #mankind

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.


Daisaku Ikeda


#being #committed #enriching #focus #genuine

I felt strongly that since the pursuit of good science was so difficult it was essential that the problem being studied was an important one to justify the effort expanded.


Paul Nurse


#difficult #effort #essential #expanded #felt