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If any man seeks for greatness, let him forget greatness and ask for truth, and he will find both.

Horace Mann

What the superior man seeks is in himself. What the mean man seeks is in others.

Confucius

The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

G. K. Chesterton

Happiness is possible only to a rational man, the man who desires nothing but rational goals, seeks nothing but rational values and finds his joy in nothing buy rational actions.

Ayn Rand

He who seeks rest finds boredom. He who seeks work finds rest.

Dylan Thomas

We still believe that dairy products sold should be pasteurized. We believe that to be the safest way to go. However, if the General Assembly seeks to add an exemption, we believe that, number one, the farm should be inspected for safety and cleanliness, and two, the product should be tested to ensure that it is free of pathogens.

Andrew Smith

Our proposal seeks to provide stability, clarity and predictability in moving the Yucca Mountain Project forward as quickly as possible. It is good for national security, it is good for the environment, it is good for the economy, and we think it is very good for America.

Clay Sell

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

James Oppenheim

Banks are an almost irresistible attraction for that element of our society which seeks unearned money.

J. Edgar Hoover

All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of the least intelligent of those whom it seeks to reach.

Adolf Hitler

The waiver that was approved provides very limited coverage at a considerable cost to the low-wage workers it seeks to cover.

Cindy Mann

Once again the Bush administration seeks to promote a 'compassionate conservative' image by repackaging old money for Africa, and once again greater scrutiny reveals this image to be disingenuous.

Salih Booker

Whereas the gentleman always seeks to deserve his position, the aristocrat, disdainful and insouciant, is quite happy just to exploit it.

Simon Raven

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

John Haggai

The Chamber continuously seeks to provide its members with additional value and services. We are very excited to be a partner with the Ohio Chamber in providing valuable human resource compliance information to its members with just a click of a mouse.

Bob Brady

The man who seeks one thing in life and but one May hope to achieve it before life is done; But he who seeks all things, wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.

Owen Meredith

The House of Representatives recently passed an ESA reform bill that promises to give property owners 100 percent direct compensation for their lost rights. Incredibly, Senator Crapo's bill seeks to undo this. For property rights advocates, CRESA snatches defeat from the jaws of victory.

Peyton Knight

The Islamic Republic does not seek adventure and conflict but seeks only recognition of its inalienable right in these talks.

Hassan Rowhani

A man who seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Frederick The Great

He that seeks trouble never misses.

French Proverb

Falsehood often lurks upon the tongue of him, who, by self-praise, seeks to enhance his value in the eyes of others.

Arnold Bennett

No man chooses evil because it is evil; he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Taught from infancy that beauty is woman's sceptre, the mind shapes itself to the body, and roaming round its gilt cage, only seeks to adorn its prison.

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

True refinement seeks simplicity.

Bruce Lee

We have a system of testing that seeks to fail the majority of our students.

Ruel Reid

The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right; the spirit of liberty is the spirit which seeks to understand the minds of other men and women.

Learned Hand

Love of country is like love of woman - he loves her best who seeks to bestow on her the highest good.

Felix Adler

But the one thing that has power completely is love, because when a man loves, he seeks no power, and therefore he has power.

Alan Paton

Olympism is a philosophy which, by blending sport with culture, seeks to create a way of life based on the joy found in effort, the educational value of good example and respect for universal ethical principle.

Juan Antonio Samaranch

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, and eagerly pursues imaginary joys.

Mark Akenside

Communism teaches and seeks two objectives: unrelenting class warfare and the complete eradication of private ownership.

Pope Pius XI

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Frederic Bastiat

This standard seeks to ease the burden of verifying complex hardware designs, which can account for more than 60 percent of a design cycle.

Harry Foster

The resolution is an all-out attack on the women of Tennessee and seeks to rob women of their right to make choices about their own health, safety and personal welfare.

Hedy Weinberg

Oracle's offer seeks to enrich Oracle at the expense of PeopleSoft's stockholders, customers and employees, ... We believe that Oracle's proposed acquisition of PeopleSoft would stifle competition and limit customer choice.

Craig Conway

He's a tough inside runner, with good speed. He seeks out. He runs sort of like Jim Taylor. Once he gets in the open field, he's looking to deliver the blow. He's looking to be the hammer and not the nail.

Bob Knox

This initiative seeks to retain and grow existing companies, give first to new animal health and nutrition ventures, and attract new companies.

Joerg Ohle

The government, when it settles a case, ordinarily seeks jail times for officers and directors and high executives who are implicated in the conspiracy. I know that it is something that the government tries to get and will try to get it in this case, no doubt.

Peter Sullivan

We implement the laws for Congress. It appears that [the law] seeks to discourage drug use. We support efforts to protect the health and safety of students.

Valerie Smith

No employer who seeks to exploit people, who seeks to use John Howard's laws to cut take-home pay and conditions will be without attention.

Sharan Burrow

We like a person who's an academic risk-taker, someone who seeks challenges and rises to meet them, ... We'd rather see a B in an AP class than an A in a regular class.

Michael Mckeon

This bill is an unprecedented attack on the due process rights of victims injured by the misconduct of an industry that seeks to escape the legal rules that govern the rest of us. We believe state and federal courts across this nation are prepared to strike it down.

Dennis Henigan

The tale is a classic whodunit which seeks to unravel the mystery of who killed inflation. The only problem is that neither the body nor the murder weapon have been identified.

Adam Blankman

The lawsuit seeks an injunction against Yahoo to prevent the auction or sale of counterfeit games and illegal devices designed to circumvent copyright protection.

Jeff Brown

Love seeks no cause beyond itself and no fruit; it is its own fruit, its own enjoyment. I love because I love; I love in order that I may love.

Bernard, St.

The arrest of a cabinet minister proves the falseness of Israel's arguments that it seeks peace.

Ghazi Hamad

If you want to be found stand where the seeker seeks.

Sidney Lanier

This is a tragic case but you've made something of it, ... This court seeks to deter further terrorist acts against Americans who may be in Israel or elsewhere.

Royce Lamberth

The qualities which a man seeks in his beloved are those characteristics of his own soul, whether he knows it or not.

Plato

The peer review system is satisfactory during quiescent times, but not during a revolution in a discipline such as astrophysics, when the establishment seeks to preserve the status quo.

Hannes Alfven

Once again, environmentalist scare-mongering seeks to undermine common-sense reforms that shore up our energy infrastructure.

Scott Segal

At the time the Lockwood Collection was donated, ... Charles Abbott, then the university's library director, called it 'a princely gift,' and 'the nucleus, around which may grow a new library, dedicated to learning and to the culture that it seeks to inspire.'

John Edens

The proposal seeks to stitch back the streetscape and we support it wholeheartedly. We've got the best interests of Camden Passage at heart.

Adrian Wilson

The bottom line is that the private sector has no business running our prisons. This is one of the most basic government responsibilities. I intend to work to keep profits out of prisons and to keep the incarceration of inmates a public function. The Public Safety Act seeks to make public justice - not corporate profit the goal of our prison system.

Ted Strickland

John Kerry seeks to distract Americans from his own failed ideas for protecting America from future attacks. John Kerry's backward-looking approach would return us to the failed policies of treating terror as a law-enforcement matter.

Nicolle Devenish

It is an outrage that the United States seeks its development by stepping on the poor and less-developed nations.

Jose Nunez

Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty... Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

The Wisconsin Department of Justice vigorously enforces the No Call law and regularly seeks and wins judgments against violators.

Peg Lautenschlager

This lawsuit has served to bring into clear focus several issues regarding our regulatory procedures, particularly the need for full and fair disclosures to members. NCUA will continue to evaluate our regulations and processes to make certain that we satisfy our congressional mandate to administer the member vote properly when a credit union seeks to convert to a mutual savings bank.

Joann Johnson

Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.

Alexis De Tocqueville

The subpoena seeks 'all' unpublished 'communications,' including e-mails and phone records, between me and people and organizations I've quoted - and at least one I've never quoted - regarding five stocks.

Herb Greenberg

Agrees with the defendant's skepticism of the government's ability to prosecute this case in open court in light of the shroud of secrecy under which it seeks to proceed.

Leonie Brinkema

Preval is between a rock and a hard place... He seeks to establish himself as an autonomous political actor in Haitian politics, though his (Feb. 7) election victory was in part based on his links with Aristide.

Dan Erikson

Anyone who seeks a prayer life guided by Scripture will not take this study seriously. Prayer is based upon a relationship, namely a relationship with God through Jesus Christ, and prayer is itself a part of that relationship. And relationships cannot properly be evaluated by scientific methods.

Don Whitney

Is there any other industry in this country which seeks to presume so completely to give the customer what he does not want?

Rupert Murdoch

While the FDA seeks assurances that we will maintain and continue our quality commitment, we understand that the safety and quality of our products is not at issue.

Allen Chao

Despair, in short, seeks its own environment as surely as water finds its own level.

A. Alvarez

The true gourmet, like the true artist, is one of the unhappiest creatures existent. His trouble comes from so seldom finding what he constantly seeks: perfection.

Ludwig Bemelmans

Whether lawyer, politician or executive, the American who knows what's good for his career seeks an institutional rather than an individual identity. He becomes the man from NBC or IBM. The institutional imprint furnishes him with pension, meaning, proofs of existence. A man without a company name is a man without a country.

Lewis H. Lapham

The travel writer seeks the world we have lost -the lost valleys of the imagination.

Alexander Cockburn

The true worth of an experimenter consists in his pursuing not only what he seeks in his experiment, but also what he did not seek.

Claude Bernard

Target and Wal-Mart simply aren't on the same scale. Wal-Mart regularly seeks to be treated differently.

Andrew Grossman

If that's going to be the policy of the church as the church seeks to be its best self, then I'm going to accept what the church tells me, ... On the other hand, I would have an awful lot of compassion for men who are holy, celibate, chaste and who are homosexual and have served the church well.

Robert Silva

The great unity which true science seeks is found only by beginning with our knowledge of God, and coming down from Him along the stream of causation to every fact and event that affects us.

Howard Crosby

No due process issue is raised by legislation that seeks to redress injuries suffered by district residents and visitors resulting from the manufacture and distribution of a particular class of firearms whose lethal nature far outweighs their utility.

Michael Farrell

We don't have an interest in having anyone drag us into a battle, an argument, a difference or tension that seeks goals that don't serve Lebanon.

Fouad Siniora

Modern man does not love, but seeks refuge in love; does not hope, but seeks refuge in hope; does not believe but seeks refuge in dogma.

Nicolas Gomez Davila

He's a pretender with no experience. He has absolutely no interest in serving the public as he seeks to raise his name recognition.

Kris Thompson

The principle of being free to pursue your preferences is compatible and coexists quite comfortably with a belief in essential gender differences. This essentialist notion, which helps to create what it seeks to explain, affects girls' views of what they're good at and can shape what they like.

Maria Charles

Do not assume that she who seeks to comfort you now, lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. Her life may also have much sadness and difficulty, that remains far beyond yours. Were it otherwise, she would never have been able to find these words.

Rainer Maria Rilke

Meridian International Center seeks to educate people of all ages about global issues, connect professionals from different countries, and enrich the cultural perspectives of audiences across the US and abroad.

Judith Close

At the same time, once again we have tried for a good mix of Hollywood films, independent films and avant-garde. Ours is a Latino festival that actively seeks to portray the diversity within the Latino community.

Ethan Van Thillo

[Frazier] seeks to highlight the original character of the building.

Eddie Bumbaugh

Any proposal from industry that seeks to promote both investment, improved services and competition is welcome.

Ed Willett