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In all worldly things that a man pursues with the greatest eagerness he finds not half the pleasure in the possession that he proposed to himself in the expectation.
Robert South

Greatest, Himself, Half

Here the skeptic finds chaos and the believer further evidence that the hand that made us is divine.
Robert Moses

Made, Here, Hand

Everybody in New York is looking for something. Once in a while, somebody finds it.
Donald E. Westlake

Once, While, Looking

There are a lot of laughs in this movie, but it's not just about the laughs. It's really about the story, about a guy who finds his soul and realizes what's truly important.
Peter Farrelly

Important, Soul, Story

Ulysses finds himself unchanged, aside from his experience, at the end of his odyssey.
Raymond Queneau

Experience, End, Himself

Melancholy has ceased to be an individual phenomenon, an exception. It has become the class privilege of the wage earner, a mass state of mind that finds its cause wherever life is governed by production quotas.
Gunther Grass

Life, Mind, Become

I don't like to search too much. I find it is easier when romance finds you.
Michelle Trachtenberg

Find, Romance, Search

I decided that I was going to be the Kennedy who makes her own name and finds her own job and works like a dog. My comeuppance was when Arnold got elected - I became the Kennedy who was married to the governor.
Maria Shriver

Job, Her, Makes

Again like Williams, with the emphasis now regrettable, when a man makes a poem, makes it mind you, he takes the words as he finds them lying interrelated about him.
Robert Creeley

Mind, Words, Him

The aristocracy of Western Europe has absolutely tabooed silver in those countries and driven it away from there. Here it finds its only resting place.
Richard Parks Bland

Place, Away, Here

'Dial Star' is about an aspiring actress who finds the cell phone of AnnaLynne McCord and impersonates her.
AnnaLynne McCord

Her, Star, Phone

Examples one finds in the philosophical literature are somebody who's seen the trial of a child of theirs, where they're being proved guilty of some crime that would drive the parent into a depression, maybe a suicidal depression.
Robert Nozick

Depression, Child, Guilty

There is nothing more natural than to consider everything as starting from oneself, chosen as the center of the world; one finds oneself thus capable of condemning the world without even wanting to hear its deceitful chatter.
Guy Debord

Nothing, Everything, Hear

I want to block some common misunderstandings about 'understanding': In many of these discussions one finds a lot of fancy footwork about the word 'understanding.'
John Searle

Word, Common, Fancy

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
Patrick MacGill

Short, Often, Though

The heart jungle drum beat finds its voice in love and matchsticks.
Isabel Yosito

Love, Heart, Voice

The main secret for a horse that is heavy upon the hand, is for the rider to have a very light one; for when he finds nothing to bear upon with his mouth, he infallibly throws himself upon the haunches for his own security.
William Cavendish

Nothing, Light, Secret

We're all like little ants who scurry around with the materials that are at hand right now. Each generation finds new materials. Its just evolution, isn't it?
Beth Orton

Around, Hand, Generation

Be there a will, and wisdom finds a way.
George Crabbe

With any half-hour comedy, it kind of takes on its own life and finds itself.
Seth MacFarlane

Life, Comedy, Takes

No: war material is life-saving for one's own people and whoever works and performs in these spheres can be proud of it; here enterprise as a whole finds its highest justification of existence.
Gustav Krupp

War, Proud, Here

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.
Rod Parsley

Life, Love, Happiness

It is rare that even a jazz musician finds an individual voice.
David Baker

Individual, Voice, Jazz

The position the Government finds itself in is not one of constructing a law, but of carrying out a decision given by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council.
Charles Tupper

Government, Decision, Law

Whoever undertakes to create soon finds himself engaged in creating himself.
Harold Rosenberg

Himself, Create, Soon

Social democracy seeks and finds the ways, and particular slogans, of the workers' struggle only in the course of the development of this struggle, and gains directions for the way forward through this struggle alone.
Rosa Luxemburg

Alone, Forward, Struggle

There is not less wit nor less invention in applying rightly a thought one finds in a book, than in being the first author of that thought.
Pierre Bayle

Book, Thought, Less

Sometimes when my mom finds a fun article and really wants me to read it, I will. But I prefer to just kind of focus on what I want to do and not really what other people are saying, because I don't want that to affect me too much.
Missy Franklin

Mom, Fun, Focus

Only a great actor finds the difficulties of the actor's art infinite.
Ellen Terry

Great, Art, Actor

An army that fought and won a war decisively finds it even more difficult to undergo change.
Eric Shinseki

Change, War, Difficult

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