The general proposition is that the resources that will be utilized are the ones that contribute most to the overall efficiency of the production system. The third parameter has to do with our commercial world, our search for profits.
Marvin Harris

The greater the step forward in knowledge, the greater is the one taken backward in search of wisdom.
Stephen Gardiner

The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
Marguerite Duras

The main thing that those two albums have in common aside from my music, which of course, a sense of it, you can recognize, it is that the bass on Infinite Search was playing much, much less like a bass.
Miroslav Vitous

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.
Virginia Hamilton

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

The noblest search is the search for excellence.
Lyndon B. Johnson

The Olympics remain the most compelling search for excellence that exists in sport, and maybe in life itself.
Dawn Fraser

The philosophic spirit of inquiry may be traced to brute curiosity, and that to the habit of examining all things in search of food.
William Winwood Reade

The quest for certainty blocks the search for meaning. Uncertainty is the very condition to impel man to unfold his powers.
Erich Fromm

The same expertise we learned at the autopsy table can be applied to living people who've been shot, battered, or raped. The search for trace evidence is the same.
Michael Baden

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.
Eric Hoffer

The search for human freedom can never be complete without freedom for women.
Betty Ford

The search for religion is the starting point of thought.
Xu Zhimo

The search for someone to blame is always successful.
Robert Half

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.
Roman Jakobson

The search for the truth for truth's sake is the mark of the historian.
B. H. Liddell Hart

The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
Vincent D'Onofrio

The search for the truth is the most important work in the whole world, and the most dangerous.
James Clavell