Interest Quotes
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We talk on principle, but we act on interest
Walter Savage Landor
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The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.
Thomas Paine
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A good sermon should be like a woman`s skirt: short enough to arouse interest but long enough to cover the essentials.
Ronald Knox
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Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.
Richard M. Nixon
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Homosexuality, is regarded as shameful by barbarians and by those who live under despotic governments just as philosophy is regarded as shameful by them, because it is apparently not in the interest of such rulers to have great ideas engendered in their s...
Plato
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There are two levers for moving men: interest and fear.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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My passion for opera-the eternal truth of drama through music-has grown, while my interest in performance has diminished. Which is perhaps as good a reason as any other to go quietly.
Lord Harewood
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Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,
Joseph Addison
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
Jeremy Bentham
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It is vain to talk of the interest of the community, without understanding what is the interest of the individual
Jeremy Bentham
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We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.
Fydor Dostoevsky
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Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.
Frank Moore Colby
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An election is coming. Universal peace is declared and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry.
T.S. Eliot
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Perhaps no place in any community is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest.
Claudia Lady Bird Johnson
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My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there
Charles F. Kettering
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later
Charles Caleb Colton
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For it is mutual trust, even more than mutual interest that holds human associations together. Our friends seldom profit us but they make us feel safe... Marriage is a scheme to accomplish exactly that same end.
Bill Lovejoy
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Whether a person feels positive or not is kind of a comment on their personality and of no great interest. You can find positive signs or you can find negative signs. How you evaluate them depends on something that happened in your life recently or someth...
Avram Noam Chomsky
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One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.
Anatol Rapoport
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All failures - neurotics, psychotics, criminals, drunkards, problem children, suicides, perverts, and prostitutes - are failures because they are lacking in social interest
Alfred Adler
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Neurosis is the natural, logical development of an individual who is comparatively inactive, filled with a personal, egocentric striving for superiority, and is therefore retarded in the development of his social interest, as we find regularly among
Alfred Adler
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There can be no hope when there lacks interest for better. There can be no trust when there lacks confirmation of truth. There can be no faith when there lacks complete confidence of purpose.
Adlin Sinclair
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If your sexual fantasies were truly of interest to others, they would no longer be fantasies
Fran Lebowitz
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Human benevolence is mingled with vanity, interest, or some other motive
Samuel Johnson
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It is of interest to note that while some dolphins are reported to have learned English - up to fifty words used in correct context - no human being has been reported to have learned dolphinese.
Dr. Carl Sagan
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Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together.
Daniel Webster
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Our identities have no bodies, so, unlike you, we cannot obtain order by physical coercion. We believe that from ethics, enlightened self-interest, and the commonweal, our governance will emerge.
John Perry Barlow
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This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it
John Dalton
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Consenting to slavery is a sacrilegious breach of trust, as offensive in the sight of God as it is derogatory from our own honor or interest of happiness
John Adams
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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.
Adam Smith
