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The same principles which at first lead to scepticism, pursued to a certain point bring men back to common sense. See Bacon 48:95.
George Berkeley— 1734 Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous, dialogue 3.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
james nicoll— Usenet article <1990May15.155309.8892@watdragon.waterloo.edu>
— (Often misattributed, in part or in whole, to Booker T. Washington, Ambrose Bierce, Terry Pratchett, and the painter James Nicoll (1846–1918).)
Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
alex kozinski— A. Kozinski, What I Ate For Breakfast and Other Mysteries of Judicial Decision Making, 26 Loy. L.A. L. Rev. 993 (1993). [5]
A union of indomitable resolution in the achievement of a given purpose, with patience and moderation in the policy pursued, and with kindly charity and consideration and friendliness to those of opposite belief , marks the very spirit in which we of to-day should approach the pressing problems of the present .
theodore roosevelt— In "The Progressives, Past and Present" in: The Outlook, Vol. 96, No. 1 (3 September 1910)
There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy, and the tired.
— 1925 The Great Gatsby, ch.4.
There is much of economic theory which is pursued for no better reason than its intellectual attraction; it is a good game. 402
SirJohn Richard Hicks— 1979 Causality in Economics.
And I turned and fled, like a soul pursued, From the white, inviolate solitude.
Sir Charles George Douglas Roberts— 1901 'The Skater'.
I pursued a maiden and clasped a reed: Gods and men, we are all deluded thus! It breaks in our bosom and then we bleed.
Percy Bysshe Shelley— 'Hymn of Pan' (published1824).
En cherchant la gloire, j'ai toujours espe re qu'elle me ferait aimer. I have pursued fame always in the hope of winning her love.
Stae« l, Germaine Necker, Baronne de— 1807 Corinne ou de l'Italie.
The second German secret weapon is anti-Semitism, because if it is consistently pursued by Germany, it will become a universal problem which all nations will be forced to consider.
robert ley— Quoted in "Trial of the Major War Criminals Before the International Military Tribunal" - Page 118 - Nuremberg, Germany - 1947
When pursued with a pure heart, acting is an entirely selfless profession.
masiela lusha— Quoted by Masiela Lusha
...where Nietzsche’s response to the equation of socialism and morality was to question the value of morality, at least as it had been customarily understood, economists like Mises and Hayek pursued a different path, one Nietzsche would never have dared to take: they made the market the very expression of morality.
ludwig von mises— Corey Robin, Nietzsche’s Marginal Children: On Friedrich Hayek. The Nation, May 27 2013.
Another longstanding foreign policy flaw is the degree to which special interests dictate the way in which the "national interest" as a whole is defined and pursued.... America's important historic relationship with Israel has often led foreign policy decision-makers to defer reflexively to Israeli security assessments, and to replicate Israeli tactics, which, as the war in Lebanon last summer demonstrated, can turn out to be counter-productive.
samantha power— "Samantha Power on U.S. Foreign Policy", an interview with in Molly Lanzarotta, Harvard University, John F. Kennedy School of Government (14 March 2007)
If the Democratic policies had been pursued over the last two or three years...we would not have had the kind of job growth we've had.
— Lester Holt interview, MSNBC, March 2, 2004 whitehouse.archives.gov
The most important thing I found out from [my father] is that if you asked any question and pursued it deeply enough, then at the end there was a glorious discovery of a general and beautiful kind.
richard feynman— p. 28 (No Ordinary Genius (1994))
'A man who comes to be hanged,' pursued Jasper, impartially, 'has the satisfaction of knowing that he has brought society to its last resource. He is a man of such fatal importance that nothing will serve against him but the supreme effort of law. In a way, you know, that is success.'
george gissing— Vol. I, Ch. 1 : A Man of His Day, p. 3
Geoffrey also recognized that the opposite orientations of gut and nervous system posed a problem for his claim that insects and vertebrates represent different versions of the same archetypal animal - and he proposed the first account of the inversion theory to resolve this threat to unification. ...Geoffroy pursued the... aim of establishing a "unity of type" that could generate both arthropods and vertebrates from the same basic blueprint. ...The single grand design includes a gut in the middle and the main nerve cords somewhere on the periphery.
stephen jay gould— "Brotherhood by Inversion", p. 326
As South Korea shows, active participation in international trade does not require free trade. Indeed, had South Korea pursued free trade and not promoted infant industries, it would not have become a major trading nation. It would still be exporting raw materials (e.g., tungsten ore, fish, seaweed) or low-technology, low-price products (e.g., textiles, garments, wigs made with human hair) that used to be its main export items in the 1960s.
ha-joon chang— Ch. 3, More trade, fewer ideologies, p. 67.
Justice is the end of Government. It is the end of civil society. It ever has been, and ever will be pursued, until it be obtained, or until liberty be lost in the pursuit.
james madison— Federalist No. 51
If, as many anthropologists still hold, the making and using of tools as one of the chief sources of primitive man's intellectual development, is it not time that we asked ourselves what will happen to man if he departs as completely as he now threatens to do from his primal polytechnic occupations? Since they can no longer be pursued at a profit, perhaps they will have to be restored as modes of sport and recreation, even more as helpful increasingly essential forms of personal service and mutual aid.
Lewis Mumford— Technical Liberation
We see in tragedy the noblest men, after a long conflict and suffering, finally renounce forever all the pleasure of life and the aims till then pursued so keenly, or cheerfully and willingly give up life itself.
Arthur Schopenhauer— Book 1 (The World as Will and Representation (1819; 1844))
Truth, like all other good things, may be loved unwisely may be pursued too keenly may cost too much.
1st Baron— Knight-Bruce, V.-C, Pearse v. Pearse (1846), 1 De Gex & Sm. 28, 29.
They sought it with thimbles, they sought it with care; They pursued it with forks and hope; They threatened its life with a railway-share; They charmed it with smiles and soap.
— Lewis Carroll, The Hunting of the Snark, Fit 5.
Small habits, well pursued betimes, May reach the dignity of crimes.
hannah more— Hannah More, Florio, Part I.
Why were there not then among the generations before you those possessing understanding, forbidding mischief in the earth, except a few among them whom We delivered? And the unjust pursued the enjoyment of plenty, and they were guilty. And thy Lord would not destroy the towns unjustly, while their people acted well.
— 116-117 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
Exit, pursued by a Bear.
— Stage direction, scene iii
All skepticism is a kind of idealism . Hence when the skeptic Zeno pursued the study of skepticism by endeavoring existentially to keep himself unaffected by whatever happened, so that when once he had gone out of his way to avoid a mad dog, he shamefacedly admitted that even a skeptical philosopher is also sometimes a man, I find nothing ridiculous in this. There is no contradiction, and the comical always lies in a contradiction.
— Soren Kierkegaard, Concluding Unscientific Postscript to Philosophical Fragments (1846), p. 315, as translated by David F. Swenson and Walter Lowrie (1941)
