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The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer
The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness.
John Kenneth Galbraith
I'm an ocean, because I'm really deep. If you search deep enough you can find rare exotic treasures.
Christina Aguilera
The search for the truth is the noblest of occupations, and its publication a duty.
Anne Louise Germaine de Staël
The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world - and the most dangerous.
James Clavell
When you go in search of honey you must expect to be stung by bees.
Joseph Joubert
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.
Peter Ustinov
Actors search for rejection. If they don't get it they reject themselves.
Charlie Chaplin
Tell your heart that the fear of suffering is worse than the suffering itself. And no heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dream.
Paulo Coelho
I will never be satisfied. Life is one constant search for betterment for me.
Jayne Mansfield
If we become increasingly humble about how little we know, we may be more eager to search.
John Templeton
When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell
I refer, of course, to the debts our nation has amassed for itself over decades of indulgence. It is the new Red Menace, this time consisting of ink. We can debate its origins endlessly and search for villains on ideological grounds, but the reality is pure arithmetic.
Mitch Daniels
I know well what I am fleeing from but not what I am in search of.
Michel de Montaigne
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth.
H. G. Wells
If you want to understand today, you have to search yesterday.
Pearl S. Buck
A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.
George Moore (novelist)
Architects have to dream, we have to search for our Atlantises, to be explorers, adventurers, and yet to build responsibly and well.
Renzo Piano
No heart has ever suffered when it goes in search of its dreams, because every second of the search is a second's encounter with God and with eternity.
Paulo Coelho
I can choose either to be a victim of the world or an adventurer in search of treasure. It's all a question of how I view my life.
Paulo Coelho
The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up, as it were, in a prison and in servitude, and having by accident got its liberty, not being accustomed to search for its food, and not knowing where to conceal itself, easily becomes the prey of the first who seeks to incarcerate it again.
Niccolò Machiavelli
Our art culture makes no attempt to search the past for precedents, but transforms the entire past into a sequence of provisional responses to a problem that remains intact.
André Malraux
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