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His finest accomplishment, though, may be his maxim, casting the search for truth beyond our senses and our current understanding as the
pursuit
of the beauty of the as yet unknown.
So while we humans have made great progress in our relentless
pursuit
of speed, it turns out that nature was there first.
In hot
pursuit
are hoards of hungry and agile predators.
Humanae is a
pursuit
to highlight our true colors, rather than the untrue white, red, black or yellow associated with race.
That's what always got politicians elected: to seek, gain and hold onto power through the
pursuit
of local or at very best national interests.
It was formalized and professionalized, but it was restricted to specific roles and generally applied in
pursuit
of commercial goals rather than being used intuitively, as Florence Nightingale, Blackbeard and Ying Zheng had done.
We don't know yet, but we're hot on the
pursuit.
We have come in the
pursuit
of love.
I migrated to the United States from the Caribbean island of Saint Lucia in the late 1970s in
pursuit
of higher education, and in the last 40 years, I have done well.
What is science but the empirical
pursuit
of the truth?
And Palchinsky repeatedly got in trouble for his radical honesty and willingness to point out major flaws in the Soviets' mindless
pursuit
of rapid industrialization.
"Autumn" brings eager hunters dashing out in
pursuit
of their prey.
And that avoids this problem of single-minded
pursuit
of an objective.
We can do better than investing solely in law enforcement as a resource, because they don't give us a sense of relevancy that is at the core of why so many of us do so many harmful things in the
pursuit
of mattering.
Furious at their elders, Hermia and Lysander elope under cover of darkness, with Demetrius in hot
pursuit.
But in the pursuit, I became the first black woman to ever become the nominee for governor in the history of the United States of America for a major party.
It turns out the
pursuit
of pleasure has almost no contribution to life satisfaction.
The
pursuit
of meaning is the strongest.
The
pursuit
of engagement is also very strong.
The play strips society down to its basest desires, with each faction in hot
pursuit
of power- be it over the land, other people, or their own destiny.
The Lyndon Johnson that I saw in the last years of his life, when I helped him on his memoirs, was a man who had spent so many years in the
pursuit
of work, power and individual success, that he had absolutely no psychic or emotional resources left to get him through the days once the presidency was gone.
This session is on natural wonders, and the bigger conference is on the
pursuit
of happiness.
I went from data science to climate policy research, from tech to public service, in
pursuit
of better data to avoid the wasted energy, resources, opportunities that lead to runaway carbon emissions.
And yet every artist works in
pursuit
of communicating something that's true.
And when I saw this man's work, I realized how bad I was at design, or whatever I called it back then, and I suddenly had a kind of career goal, kind of in hot
pursuit.
That all men, that all women, that even all trans people are created equal and are endowed by your Creator with certain unalienable rights, including life, liberty and the
pursuit
of happiness.
I believe it's because the ratio of one-percent
pursuit
of shareholder value and 99 percent the betterment of humanity that technology used to play has been flipped, and now we're totally focused on shareholder value instead of humanity.
When incentives don't work, when CEOs ignore the long-term health of their companies in
pursuit
of short-term gains that will lead to massive bonuses, the response is always the same.
That's the zone that centers around my own personal
pursuit
of happiness.
I call it seeking joy, this
pursuit
of happiness.
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