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Entirely selfless pursuits. |
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| Dante |
Dec. 15, 2013, 11:53 a.m. |
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| Alexander Calder |
Why must art be static? You look at an abstraction, sculptured or painted, an entirely exciting arrangement of planes, spheres, nuclei, entirely without meaning. It would be perfect, but it is always still. The next step in sculpture is motion. |
| Mark Gatiss |
I am a gay man who loves James Bond films and snooker - all kinds of working-class pursuits. |
| Thomas Aquinas |
Friendship is the source of the greatest pleasures, and without friends even the most agreeable pursuits become tedious. |
| Thomas Jefferson |
Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits. |
| Tunde Adebimpe |
Also, painting and animation are really solitary pursuits, so the collaborative aspects of music making and acting are pretty welcome sometimes. |
| Ibrahim Babangida |
Even now, we make no apologies for the choice we made. The sacrifices we made were selfless. The options we offered were patriotic while the paths we chose were well thought out. |
| James E. Faust |
To be a good father and mother requires that the parents defer many of their own needs and desires in favor of the needs of their children. As a consequence of this sacrifice, conscientious parents develop a nobility of character and learn to put into practice the selfless truths taught by the Savior Himself. |
| Michael Eisner |
It is rare to find a business partner who is selfless. If you are lucky it happens once in a lifetime. |
| Mortimer Adler |
Love can be unselfish, in the sense of being benevolent and generous, without being selfless. |
| Muhammad Ali Jinnah |
With faith, discipline and selfless devotion to duty, there is nothing worthwhile that you cannot achieve. |
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I am speaking mostly about group and formal interaction rather than intimate one on one. I'm saying that our primal instinct to gain association with strong people makes relationship a game when I would prefer it to be more authentically selfless. If relationship is led so much by our instinct to increase our power, how can we call it love. Plot twist: love is power
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I had an
unaccountable feeling of fear and uncertainty. At last in the midst of misgivings I fell asleep. I slept fitfully, dreaming
strange dreams, and woke up after short intervals in sharp contrast to my usual deep, uninterrupted sleep. After about 3
a.m. sleep refused to come. I sat up in bed for some time. Sleep had not refreshed me. I still felt fatigued and my
thoughts lacked clarity. The usual time for my meditation was approaching. I decided to begin earlier so that I would not
hav...
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Tina was at a crossroads. Her daughter had recently left for college, and her husband had his own pursuits. And although she’d once enjoyed banking, she now bore little interest in her work. For some time, she had been asking herself whether she should quit. But what would her colleagues and bosses think of her?
This stream of consciousness carried Tina to deeper, more revealing questions. What if all her choices had been in response to what others expected? She had always been her parents’ golden child – a star student who married a man they approved of and went into the same industry her father and grandfather had pursued. Now, at the age of 45, she was wondering if these choices were really pseudo-choices, given the pressure her family had put on her? And even more frightening: what o...
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