#pursuit

The avoidance of taxes is the only intellectual pursuit that still carries any reward. ↗

— John Maynard Keynes

#any #avoidance #carries #intellectual #only

My philosophy all my life has been the pursuit of excellence. ↗

— John Kluge

#excellence #life #my life #philosophy #pursuit

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution 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. ↗

— Jim Ryun

#certain #closer #constitution #country #created

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#knowledge #pursuit #see #want

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. ↗

— Georg Simmel

#advance #dearth #demands #division #ever

We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments. ↗

— Adlai E. Stevenson

#confuse #element #endowments #equal #equality

Our nation was built by pioneers - pioneers who accepted untold risks in pursuit of freedom, not by pioneers seeking offshore profits at the expense of American workers here at home. ↗

— Ted Strickland

#american #american workers #built #expense #freedom

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

#buildings #certain #designed #drawings #fact

God will not hold us responsible to understand the mysteries of election, predestination, and the divine sovereignty. The best and safest way to deal with these truths is to raise our eyes to God and in deepest reverence say, "0 Lord, Thou knowest." Those things belong to the deep and mysterious Profound of God's omniscience. Prying into them may make theologians, but it will never make saints. ↗

— A.W. Tozer

#elections

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

#drop #happiness #happy #here #i