All ancient history was written with a moral object; the ethical interest predominates almost to the exclusion of all others. — Tacitus Copy Share Image
I think the concern over rising interest rates is ahead of itself because I think inflationary fears themselves might be premature, — Sung Won Sohn Copy Share Image
Today the Internet is run by private sector interests within the United States under the supervision of a nonprofit entity formed by… — Robin Hayes Copy Share Image
Part of the particular interest and beauty of science fiction and fantasy: writer and reader collaborate in world-making. — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
This notion of changing technology interests me. I work on a computer now, and it's not been easy to adjust. I still… — Hal Hartley Copy Share Image
No one was going to stop me from writing and no one had to really guide me towards science fiction. It was… — Octavia Butler Copy Share Image
Every time I think about writing, comedy doesn't interest me in the slightest. I can play comedy, but I don't think in… — Jim Parsons Copy Share Image
Let's remember that the reason we are there is that we have vital interests in Afghanistan, hugely important national interests, as do… — David Petraeus Copy Share Image
In the new century, we should continue to work together to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of the vast number of… — Li Peng Copy Share Image
It does not stand to give banks millions of dollars at an interest rate of one percent, when banks charge students an… — Jesse Jackson Copy Share Image
My son is trying to be a sports writer, and my daughter is a college student. She wants to be a comedy… — Howard Schultz Copy Share Image
Today the major reason for our interest in Flatland is that for the first time we can achieve some of the dreams… — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
The reality today is that we are all interdependent and have to co-exist on this small planet. Therefore, the only sensible and… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
...there must be a sequence to learning, that perseverance and a certain measure of perspiration are indispensable, that individual pleasures must frequently… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
What we want to work with manufacturers on is to figure out how can we accommodate both interests in a sensible way?… — James Comey Copy Share Image
If the public safety be provided, liberty and propriety secured, justice administered, virtue encouraged, vice suppressed, and the true interest of the… — Algernon Sidney Copy Share Image
What causes [fragmentation] if not a need to act that specializes us and limits us to the horizon of a particular activity?… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
In the background lurks the scourge of international terrorism. There are people exercising power in a few countries and leading political factions… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
It has also been a great solace to me, to believe that you are engaged in vindicating to posterity the course we… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone's want list. I go after what I am… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Marxism was the social creed and the social cry of those classes who knew by their miseries that the creed of the… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
The financial history of the last century shows a steady increase in the amount of public indebtedness. Nobody believes that the states… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
Europe has a set of primary interests, which to us have none, or a very remote relation. Hence she must be engaged… — George Washington Copy Share Image
I think that physics is the most important-indeed the only-means we have of finding out the origins and fundamentals of our universe,… — William B. Bonnor Copy Share Image
I have only an appetite for masochistic truth, and only box-office collection figures interest me. — Mahesh Bhatt Copy Share Image
In 1998, I founded the American Center for Law and Justice, probably the premier public interest law firm in America defending the… — Pat Robertson Copy Share Image
It's great that people get together and collaborate, talk about the facts and the analysis, all in the interest of having a… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
Golf in the interest of good health and good manners. It promotes self-restraint and affords a chance to play the man and… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
When the draft comes and goes, there's a certain set of players you acquire and there's a whole bunch of others you… — Sam Hinkie Copy Share Image
I would like the government to do all it can to mitigate, then, in understanding, in mutuality of interest, in concern for… — Warren G Copy Share Image
Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
It's important to dabble in things that interest you, and for me, I'm interested in the tech space that is here in… — Andre Iguodala Copy Share Image
I'm very excited about the resurgence of vinyl which seems to parallel a growing interest in live performance — Saul Williams Copy Share Image
A woman who shaves or otherwise depilates her pubic curls has a profound interest in recreational sex. — Maureen Johnson Copy Share Image
Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Our whole lives, did any of us actually think a quarter of a percent was actually an interest rate? — Howard Lutnick Copy Share Image
I find that when you have a real interest in life and a curious life, that sleep is not the most important… — Martha Stewart Copy Share Image
People acting in their own self-interest is the fuel for all the discovery, innovation, and prosperity that powers the world. — John Stossel Copy Share Image
I still want to play in it, maybe when I absolutely think I have no chance of playing in it my view… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
How soon the labor of men would make a paradise of the earth were it not for misgovernment and a diversion of… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
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