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Definition of Pursuit
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Pursuit
The act of following or going after; esp., a following with haste, either for sport or in hostility; chase; prosecution; as, the pursuit of game; the pursuit of an enemy. A following with a view to reach, accomplish, or obtain; endeavor to attain to or gain; as, the pursuit of knowledge; the pursuit of happiness or pleasure. Course of business or occupation; continued employment with a view to same end; as, mercantile pursuits; a literary pursuit. Prosecution. Related Definitions:
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Pursuit Quotations
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Thomas Jefferson The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself. Benjamin Franklin What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child. George Bernard Shaw Only he is successful in his business who makes that pursuit which affords him the highest pleasure sustain him. Henry David Thoreau There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth. Samuel Butler |
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Pursuit Translations
pursuit in Dutch is vervolging, achtervolging pursuit in French is poursuite pursuit in Italian is inseguimento pursuit in Latin is consectatio |
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