Interest Quotes
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
Oscar Wilde
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The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the common interest; but governments which rule with a view to the private interest, whether of the one or of the few, or of the many, are perversions. For the members of a state, if they are truly citizens, ought to participate in its advantages.
Aristotle
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He watched it with that strange interest in trivial things that we try to develop when things of high import make us afraid, or when we are stirred by some new emotion for which we cannot find expression...
Oscar Wilde
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I'm sure he did. We inquired into a million guys' interest. Was he a candidate that we talked about? Absolutely. Was he one of my top five? No.
Jeff Cohen
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Whatever happens in Mogadishu, in Somalia, will happen in Great Britain. We have interlocking interests.
William Hague
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To be true to the mythical conception of a God is to be false to the interests of mankind.
E. Haldeman-Julius
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Living abroad has heightened my interest in how foreigners regard the strange places we encounter.
Evan Osnos
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The best and simplest cosmetic for women is constant gentleness and sympathy for the noblest interests of her fellow-creatures. This preserves and gives to her features an indelibly gay, fresh, and agreeable expression. If women would but realize that harshness makes them ugly, it would prove the best means of conversion.
Berthold Auerbach
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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Edmund Burke
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The power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.
Antony C. Sutton
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Trust your father. He is not perfect, but he loves you and would never do anything he didn't think was in your best interest. So talk to him. Share your thoughts and feelings, your dreams and your fears. The more he knows about your life, the better chance he has to understand your concerns and to give you good counsel.
M. Russell Ballard
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I have heard this a thousand times. Of course every state has the right to organize its security the way it deems appropriate. But the states that were already in NATO, the member states, could also have followed their own interests - and abstained from an expansion to the east.
Vladimir Putin
