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In every action we must look beyond the action at our past, present and future state, and at others ...

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Blaise PascalThe Thoughts of Blaise Pascal

A scientist has to be neutral in his search for the truth, but he cannot be neutral as to the use of...

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Without free speech no search for truth is possible... no discovery of truth is useful.

For most men life is a search for the proper manila envelope in which to get themselves filed.

My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.

Conor, I could search the world for another swashbuckling scientist, but I doubt if I would find one...

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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

We must leave this terrifying place to-morrow and go searching for sunshine.

Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.

A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian i...

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I have been and still am a seeker, but I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to li...

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Hermann HesseDemian. Die Geschichte von Emil Sinclairs Jugend

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.

In music you have people exposing this very vulnerable part of themselves, and you also have the lif...

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The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, th...

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When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.

To speculate without facts is to attempt to enter a house of which one has not the key, by wandering...

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Julian HuxleyEssays in Popular Science

Religion is a search for transcendence. But transcendence isn't necessarily sited in an external god...

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You see, because [Norfolk is] stuck out here on the east, on this hump jutting into the sea, it's no...

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The noblest search is the search for excellence.

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.

he seemed to be in quest for mental food, not heart sustenance.

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Nathaniel HawthorneThe House of the Seven Gables

Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.

If he [Thomas Edison] had a needle to find in a haystack, he would not stop to reason where it was m...

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Authoritarianism, an unrealistic occidental imagination - these issues will never be settled. Turkey...

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Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever...

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A person who goes in search of God is wasting his time. He can walk a thousand roads and join many r...

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Paulo CoelhoBy the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

When we're interested in something, everything around us appears to refer to it (the mystics call th...

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Music is love in search of a word.

There are grounds for cautious optimism that we may now be near the end ofthe search for the ultimat...

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Every face, every shop, bedroom window, public-house, and dark square is a picture feverishly turned...

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What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not ...

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Don't keep forever on the public road,going only where others have gone, and following one after the...

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One can state, without exaggeration, that the observation of and the search for similarities and dif...

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In search of my mother's garden, I found my own.

As the Constitution endures, persons in every generation can invoke its principles in their own sear...

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The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.