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I do think we have collectively begun to conflate the institutions of education for education itself. Education is an individual's pursuit of understanding and has a lot of implications for that person, for the kind of person that they are.
Tara Westover
Education
Understanding
Think
Kind
Collectively
Individual
Pursuit
Implications
Institutions
Lot
Itself
Person
Begun
Twenty years from now if there is some obscure Trivial Pursuit question, I am confident I will be the answer.
Ted Cruz
Will
Some
Trivial
Obscure
Pursuit
Answer
Am
Years
Question
Confident
Twenty
Now
When I was writing or competing in individual sports, it felt unfulfilling and lonely. When I was able to find a group of people I believed in and liked, that all worked in pursuit of a common goal, it felt incredibly rewarding.
Theo Epstein
Sports
People
Writing
Lonely
Group
Incredibly
Find
Able
Individual
Pursuit
Liked
Felt
Goal
Rewarding
Common
Common Goal
Worked
Believed
Competing
The pursuit of the vibrant seems to be the universal job description of the nation's city planners nowadays. It is also part of the Obama administration's economic recovery strategy for the nation.
Thomas Frank
Job
Nation
Strategy
Nowadays
Job Description
Obama
Administration
City
Seems
Economic
Recovery
Pursuit
Part
Economic Recovery
Also
Vibrant
Planners
Description
Universal
The cloud that descended on Black Rock on Monday was not for the past but the future. How much will this debacle chill the pursuit of other risky investigations?
Tina Brown
Future
Chill
Will
Black
Past
Cloud
Monday
Other
Risky
Pursuit
Investigations
Rock
How
How Much
Much
Descended
The King Holiday is a celebration of many things - his pursuit of racial justice, his commitment to non-violent resistance, his belief in service and doing for others. But you might also call it the other Labor Day.
Tom Perez
Service
Day
You
Justice
Commitment
Labor Day
King
Other
Others
Pursuit
Also
Call
Non-Violent
Doing
His
Labor
Celebration
Holiday
Might
Racial
Many
Belief
Things
Resistance
Sometimes you have to push the envelope in pursuit of the right thing.
Tom Perez
You
Sometimes
Right Thing
Pursuit
Push
Envelope
The Right Thing
Right
Thing
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
Tony Judt
Generation
Wealth
Else
Indifferent
Pursuit
Obsessed
Make
How
Material
Material Wealth
Begin
Amends
Much
Should
Raising
Work is a different type of pursuit than relationships. You can't take the skills that you know that have gotten you into that great school or into that great job and apply them to your relationships.
Tracy McMillan
Work
Great
You
School
Job
Type
Relationships
Great Job
Pursuit
Take
Know
Gotten
Than
Different
Them
Skills
Your
Different Type
Apply
While exceptional employees don't seek conflict, they don't run away from it either. They're able to maintain their composure while presenting their positions calmly and logically. They're able to withstand personal attacks in pursuit of the greater goal and never use that tactic themselves.
Travis Bradberry
Conflict
Employees
Positions
Run
Logically
Able
Seek
Composure
Tactic
Attacks
Exceptional
Pursuit
Never
Maintain
Greater
Withstand
Calmly
Goal
Personal
Either
While
Themselves
Use
Away
Presenting
Much to Mr. Obama's chagrin, ours is not a government run by fiat. The American people have shown quite clearly that they will not simply roll over while this administration seeks to undercut our founding principles in pursuit of its preferred European model of government.
Trent Franks
Government
People
Will
This Administration
Our
Ours
Run
Obama
Administration
Seeks
Pursuit
Simply
Clearly
Over
Undercut
Principles
Model
American
Roll
Quite
Fiat
While
Preferred
American People
Much
European
Chagrin
Shown
Founding
Professorship is not a career, but rather a life's pursuit. The people with whom I work daily exemplify and remind me of this promise.
Tyrone Hayes
Life
Work
Daily
Me
People
Promise
Rather
Pursuit
Remind
Whom
Career
I'm really excited about my future plans, as I'm doing things differently and currently training like a Trojan in pursuit of becoming heavyweight champion of the world.
Tyson Fury
Future
Champion
Training
World
About
Pursuit
Excited
Like
Becoming
Doing
Currently
Heavyweight
Heavyweight Champion
Really
Plans
Differently
Things
I come before you to declare that my sex are entitled to the inalienable right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Victoria Woodhull
Happiness
Life
You
Liberty
Sex
Entitled
Before
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Come
Declare
Inalienable
Inalienable Right
Right
Professional players work almost every day, for hours on end, and the emphasis is on the word 'work.' It can be with a partner or it can be alone, but professional chess is always a pursuit of something new and surprising.
Viswanathan Anand
Work
Alone
Day
Every Day
Word
Partner
Every
Something
Something New
Pursuit
Almost
Emphasis
Almost Every Day
New
Hours
Always
Chess
Surprising
End
Professional
Players
I came from anonymity, and I will continue to write as a private pursuit.
W. G. Sebald
Will
Pursuit
Write
Anonymity
Came
Private
Continue
And the fifteenth century was an impassioned age, so ardent and serious in its pursuit of art that it consecrated everything with which art had to ad as a religious object.
Walter Pater
Art
Age
Everything
Religious
Object
Impassioned
Ardent
Pursuit
Had
Which
Century
Fifteenth
Serious
Ad
Consecrated
I think anyone who has, you know, is in any sort of artistic pursuit, kind of goes up and down with the way they feel about their work. And I, for the most part, am pretty happy person. But, yeah. I go through definite periods of time where I'm not funny. I'm not good. I'm - I don't feel original.
Will Ferrell
Work
Funny
Time
Good
You
Happy
Down
Think
Way
Definite
Kind
Pretty
About
Through
Pursuit
Part
Feel
Know
Most
Periods
Sort
Am
Yeah
Go
Up
Up And Down
Person
Goes
Any
Artistic
Where
Anyone
Happy Person
Who
Original
Until the ayatollahs that run Iran give up the pursuit of nuclear weapons, we cannot and should not ease the pressure on the regime to do so.
Will Hurd
Pressure
Ease
We Cannot
Run
Weapons
Give
Pursuit
Until
Iran
Up
Cannot
Regime
Should
Nuclear
Nuclear Weapons
Without imagination, there can be no genuine ardor in any pursuit or for any acquisition, and without imagination, there can be no genuine morality, no profound feeling of other men's sorrow, no ardent and persevering anxiety for their interests.
William Godwin
Anxiety
Men
Feeling
Imagination
Other
Morality
Ardent
Ardor
Pursuit
Sorrow
Without
Genuine
Persevering
Any
Acquisition
Interests
Profound
The argument that somehow we've got to get rid of minority scholarships so that we can have a free and fair America implies that we have a colorblind society where minorities are equal in their pursuit of funds to go to school.
William H. Gray
School
Minority
Free
Argument
Society
Minorities
Somehow
Colorblind
Pursuit
Scholarships
Fair
Implies
Equal
Got
Go
America
Get
Where
Rid
Funds
It wounds a man less to confess that he has failed in any pursuit through idleness, neglect, the love of pleasure, etc., etc., which are his own faults, than through incapacity and unfitness, which are the faults of his nature.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Love
Nature
Man
Own
Neglect
Pleasure
Faults
Wounds
Through
Pursuit
He
Failed
Idleness
His
Than
Confess
Any
Which
Etc
Incapacity
Less
The insane pursuit of the holy grail of a balanced budget in the end is going to drive the economy into a depression.
William Vickrey
Depression
Drive
Insane
Pursuit
Budget
Economy
Balanced
Balanced Budget
End
Going
Grail
In The End
Holy
Holy Grail
I had a pursuit different from others because they all came from downtown areas with money, but I didn't have any. All I wanted is to change my destiny with my own efforts.
Zhou Qunfei
Change
Money
Own
Others
Destiny
My Own
Area
Pursuit
Had
Because
Came
Efforts
Any
Different
Wanted
Downtown
Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him.
Henry David Thoreau
Business
Pleasure
Only
Pursuit
Highest
He
Him
Makes
His
Affords
Sustain
Which
Successful
Who
I love the Constitution. But it's still a document, meant to protect human beings and ensure their life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
S.E. Cupp
Happiness
Life
Love
Constitution
Liberty
Ensure
I Love
Pursuit
Pursuit Of Happiness
Protect
Document
Still
Human
Human Beings
Meant
Beings
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