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Everything depends on a good job - strong families, strong communities, the pursuit of the American dream, and a tax base to support schools for our kids and services for our seniors.
by Bob Taft (Politician, American , born in 1942) keywords: american, base, communities, depends, dream, everything, families, good, job, kids, our, pursuit, schools, seniors, services, strong, support , tax 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.
by Yoshio Taniguchi (Architect, Japanese , born in 1937) keywords: anyone, buildings, certain, designed, drawings, fact, five, involve, last, main, obvious, pursuit , years Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
by Henry David Thoreau (Author, American , born in 1817) keywords: affords, business, highest, him, his, makes, only, pleasure, pursuit, successful, sustain , which A man's love, till it has been chastened and fastened by the feeling of duty which marriage brings with it, is instigated mainly by the difficulty of pursuit.
by Anthony Trollope (Author, English , born in 1815) keywords: been, brings, difficulty, duty, fastened, feeling, love, mainly, man, marriage, pursuit, till , which Not considering this opening worthy of more attention, I continued our pursuit to the Northwest, being desirous to embrace the advantages of the prevailing breeze.
by George Vancouver (Explorer, English , born in 1757) keywords: advantages, attention, being, breeze, considering, continued, desirous, embrace, more, northwest, opening, our, prevailing, pursuit , worthy In the end, my pursuit of the elusive New York State driver's license became about much more than a divorced woman's learning to drive for the first time.
by Suzanne Vega (Musician, American , born in 1959) keywords: became, divorced, drive, driver, elusive, end, first, learning, license, more, much, new, pursuit, state, than, time, woman , york The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.
by Jesse Ventura (Politician, American , born in 1952) keywords: charity, constitution, guarantee, guarantees, happiness, liberty, life, our, pursuit, rights , us The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
by William Vickrey (Educator, Canadian , born in 1914) keywords: balanced, budget, depression, drive, economy, end, going, grail, holy, insane, into , pursuit 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.
by Sarah Vowell (Author, American , born in 1969) keywords: ago, believe, creed, everlasting, gave, god, habit, happiness, liberty, life, long, never, pursuit, replaced, shook, something, time, up, wanting , while As long as we are persistence in our pursuit of our deepest destiny, we will continue to grow. We cannot choose the day or time when we will fully bloom. It happens in its own time.
by Denis Waitley (Writer , American) keywords: bloom, cannot, choose, continue, day, deepest, destiny, fully, grow, happens, long, our, own, persistence, pursuit, time , will If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
by Alfred Russel Wallace (Scientist, British , born in 1823) keywords: ages, back, blind, certainly, considerations, done, future, higher, immersed, look, pursuit, upon, us, wealth , will The IRA has abandoned its armed struggle in pursuit of its goals by political means. This must be fully acknowledged. Continued challenge does nothing but obstruct and inhibit the peace process.
by James T. Walsh (Politician, American , born in 1947) keywords: abandoned, acknowledged, armed, challenge, continued, does, fully, goals, inhibit, ira, means, must, nothing, obstruct, peace, political, process, pursuit , struggle I think government has a major role to play in helping us with the pursuit of happiness.
by William Weld (Politician, American , born in 1945) keywords: government, happiness, helping, major, play, pursuit, role, think , us Learn from me, if not by my precepts, then by my example, how dangerous is the pursuit of knowledge and how much happier is that man who believes his native town to be the world than he who aspires to be greater than his nature will allow.
by Mary Wollstonecraft (Writer, British , born in 1759) keywords: allow, aspires, believes, dangerous, example, greater, happier, his, how, knowledge, learn, man, much, native, nature, precepts, pursuit, than, then, town, will , world I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
by Victoria Woodhull (Activist, American , born in 1838) keywords: before, come, declare, entitled, happiness, inalienable, liberty, life, pursuit, right , sex There can be no two opinions as to what a highbrow is. He is the man or woman of thoroughbred intelligence who rides his mind at a gallop across country in pursuit of an idea.
by Virginia Woolf (Author, British , born in 1970) keywords: across, country, gallop, highbrow, his, idea, intelligence, man, mind, opinions, pursuit, rides, thoroughbred, two , woman
