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"A credit union is not an ordinary financial concern, seeking to enrich its members at the expense of the general public. Neither is it a loan company, seeking to make a profit at the expense of the unfortunates… The credit union is nothing of the kind; it is the expression in the field of economics of a high social ideal." »Alphonse Desjardins, The Canadian credit union pioneer made the remarks in a speech in the early 1900s.
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"A man is not old as long as he is seeking something." »Jean Rostand
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"To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful." »Sallust
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"Nothing is so difficult but that it may be found out by seeking." »Terence
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth doubt those who find it." »Andr Gide
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"The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth." »Cicero
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"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it; to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it." »Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon, 1825
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"Believe those who are seeking the truth. Doubt those who find it." »Andre Gide
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"To know the pains of power, we must go to those who have it to know its pleasures, we must go to those who are seeking it." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"In seeking truth you have to get both sides of a story." »Walter Cronkite
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"The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"The golden opportunity you are seeking is in yourself. It is not in your environment it is not in luck or chance, or the help of others it is in yourself alone." »Orison Swett Marden
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"The real voyage of discovery consists, not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there." »Confucius, The Confucian Analects
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"Every living thing is a sort of imperialist, seeking to transform as much as possible of its environment into itself." »Bertrand Russell
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"The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes." »Marcel Proust
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"People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost." »H. Jackson Brown Jr.
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"seeking to forget makes exile all the longer the secret of redemption lies in remembrance." »Richard von Weizscker
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"I am often troubled as I try hard here to create a new sense of common purpose ... that sometimes we forget that we are all in this because we are seeking a good that helps all Americans." »William Jefferson Clinton
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"The pleasures of the world are deceitful; they promise more than they give. They trouble us in seeking them, they do not satisfy us when possessing them and they make us despair in losing them." »Madame de Lambert
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"There will always be dissident voices heard in the land expresing opposition without alternatives, finding fault but never favor, perceiving gloom on every side, and seeking influence without responsibility." »John F. Kennedy, Speech for the Dallas Trade Mart which was never delivered.
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"We go forth all to seek America. And in the seeking we create her. In the quality of our search shall be the nature of the America that we created." »Waldo Frank
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"The beginning of wisdom is found in doubting; by doubting we come to the question, and by seeking we may come upon the truth." »Pierre Abelard
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"The idea that men are created free and equal is both true and misleading: men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other." »David Riesman
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"Indecision regarding the choice among pleasures temporarily robs a man of inner peace. After due reflection, he attains joy by turning away from the lower pleasures and seeking the higher ones." »I Ching
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"The end of wisdom is to dream high enough to lose the dream in the seeking of it." »William Faulkner
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"According to Democritus, truth lies at the bottom of a well, the water of which serves as a mirror in which objects may be reflected. I have heard, however, that some philosophers, in seeking for truth, to pay homage to her, have seen their own image and adored it instead." »Charles Richter
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"A useful definition of liberty is obtained only by seeking the principle of liberty in the main business of human life, that is to say, in the process by which men educate their responses and learn to control their environment." »Walter Lippman
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