Word: pursuits
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...should all come up with our own rules to live by. Some are more cynical and some are really romantic,” she said. “My co-writer was far more cynical and I was more romantic. He would say ‘abandon the pursuit of happiness’ and I would say ‘believe in fairy tales.’ But we like that because that’s what life is. Some days you’re going to say ‘promote beauty’ and some days you?...
Back in Amendolara, Melfi doesn't claim to have the magic solution. "I make 100 errors a day," the mayor says. "But I know that if I hadn't made any mistakes I wouldn't have accomplished anything at all." Italy needs more leaders willing to err in the pursuit of the public good, and citizens who learn to discard - and not recycle - those whose sole ambition is to cling to power...
...humanities’ initial and essential role in higher education should be to address the deeper questions of the meaning of life. However, because of the influence of what he calls the “modern research ideal,” Kronman said that the humanities have sacrificed this pursuit. “It seems to be an undeniable fact of the research that the benchmark of one’s standing...largely depends on the volume and quantity of your scholarly work,” Kronman said. Kronman’s opinions were strongly opposed...
...perhaps most hurtful have been the mounting complaints from customers, employees and even Schultz himself that in its pursuit of growth, the company has strayed too far from its roots. As Schultz memorably wrote to the company's top execs on Valentine's Day, 2007, "We have had to make a series of decisions that, in retrospect, have led to the watering down of the Starbucks experience and what some might call the commoditization of our brand." The company that taught us that coffee is not a commodity has itself become...
...around it. Binge-drinking, for example, is hardly the preserve of young Britons. A report by the organization Alcohol Concern noted that one in three British men and one in five women drink double the amount considered safe at least once a week. And, unlike many British sports, this pursuit is popular from the bottom of the social spectrum right to the top. Photographs of Princes William and Harry emerging flushed from nightclubs are tabloid staples...