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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. Thomas Jefferson

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. Thomas Jefferson

Government Wise Men Free Own Mouth Earned Otherwise Restrain Shall Pursuits Take Industry Another Leave Labor Improvement Bread Frugal Which Them Regulate Injuring

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions. Marcus Aurelius

You Quality People Minds Must Examine Pursuits True Look Understand

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking. Albert Einstein

Education Man Creative Age Mind Too Much Reading Own Thinking Too Habits Pursuits Lazy Reads His Falls Brain Any After Little Much Certain Certain Age Who Uses

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity. Martin Van Buren

Government Better Prosperity General Pursuits Private Interferes Less

Nothing can be more absurd than the practice that prevails in our country of men and women not following the same pursuits with all their strengths and with one mind, for thus, the state instead of being whole is reduced to half. Plato

Women Mind Men Men And Women Country Half Practice Nothing State Our Following Prevails More Pursuits Instead Absurd Thus Reduced Than Same Being Whole Strengths

It contributes greatly towards a man's moral and intellectual health, to be brought into habits of companionship with individuals unlike himself, who care little for his pursuits, and whose sphere and abilities he must go out of himself to appreciate. Nathaniel Hawthorne

Health Man Care Unlike Sphere Out Moral Must Ability Brought Habits Pursuits He Individuals Towards Himself Go His Intellectual Greatly Little Who Companionship Whose Appreciate

A pattern is a guide or a model. Patterns are used in sewing and knitting, in wood and metalworking, and in a wide variety of other productive pursuits, activities, and jobs. Patterns help to avoid waste and unwanted deviations and facilitate uniformity that is appropriate and beneficial. David A. Bednar

Unwanted Other Beneficial Appropriate Guide Sewing Jobs Variety Facilitate Pursuits Knitting Model Wood Pattern Patterns Uniformity Used Productive Avoid Help Activities Waste Wide Wide Variety

I'm married to my job. I'm obsessed with my work, and I run myself into the ground every single day. Unfortunately, a lot of other pursuits have to take a back seat. Robert Kazinsky

Work Myself Day Job Single Every Other Back Married Run Pursuits Take Obsessed Single Day Lot Unfortunately Ground Seat Every Single Day

There are certain pursuits which, if not wholly poetic and true, do at least suggest a nobler and finer relation to nature than we know. The keeping of bees, for instance. Henry David Thoreau

Nature Relation Finer Poetic Pursuits Instance True Know Least Bees Than Which Certain Wholly Keeping Suggest

The higher the level of people's perceived self-efficacy, the wider the range of career options they seriously consider, the greater their interest in them, and the better they prepare themselves educationally for the occupational pursuits they choose. Albert Bandura

People Better Seriously Consider Range Perceived Higher Pursuits Greater Occupational Options Interest Them Themselves Choose Prepare Level Wider Career

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none. Andrew Jackson

Government Business Legal Own Duty Other Pursuits Exclusive Protecting Well None Leave Branches Commerce Privileges Capital Credit

My life has always been compartmentalized into different aspects. I have my speed skating Olympic pursuits, I have my personal life and have my business life and have my entertainment - TV - Hollywood - whatever have you - always compartmentalizing every aspect of my life. Apolo Ohno

I have my Poetry 180 project, which I've made my main project. We encourage high schools, because that's really where, for most people, poetry dies off and gets buried under other adolescent pursuits. Billy Collins

Drawing and visual pursuits were first. Music came and found me in a way. Really, what it's about is creative problem solving, and music is a lot more an expression of that than painting is for me. Brandon Boyd

I think one of my pursuits over the years is trying to answer the question of, 'What else can you do with a voice other than stand in front of a microphone and sing?' Brian Eno

You Think Other Else Voice Pursuits Over Sing Answer Years Question Than Trying Microphone Front Stand

I've always received a lot of support from my family, particularly for my pursuits as an actor. I'm very lucky. Elliot Knight

Family Pursuits Support Particularly Always Lot Very Lucky Actor Received

Only institutions that go about the old-fashioned business of taking in deposits from customer A and lending them out to customer B should be called banks. The rest should call themselves what they are. 'Parlors' would be appropriate, or 'dens' - words more suitable to venerable betting pursuits. Graydon Carter

Business Words Rest Suitable Appropriate Out Would Would-Be About More Only Pursuits Taking Betting Venerable Institutions Call Go Banks Lending Customer Them Themselves Should Old-Fashioned

For me, writing, drawing, and political activism are three separate pursuits; each has its own intensity. I happen to be especially attuned to and engaged with the society in which I live. Both my writing and my drawing are invariably mixed up with politics, whether I want them to be or not. Gunter Grass

Politics Me Writing Political Three Own Live Society Drawing Invariably Both Pursuits Attuned Mixed Up Intensity Want Happen Whether Which Them Separate Engaged Each Activism

I like solitary pursuits, such as reading or pottering about in the garden. Hayley Mills

Gardening Garden Reading Solitary About Pursuits Like

Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Herbert Spencer

Those Entered Poetry Pursuits Never Know Scientific Surrounded Which Who

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