The first beneficiary of compassion is always oneself. When compassion, or warmheartedness, arises in us and our focus shifts away from our… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
It's the procedures in and for themselves that interest me. The picture isn't really necessary. — Sigmar Polke Copy Share Image
I've been writing all these books that have been largely autobiographical and yet, really, they don't tell you anything about me. I… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
In a way, my father was lucky. He had a hunch that his vision of the National Gallery would interest other collectors… — Paul Mellon Copy Share Image
I went to an ACC school, Wake Forest, I'm a big college basketball fan, and it was just a natural interest for… — Lee Norris Copy Share Image
I have no interest in saying "This is who I am! This is what I'm like!" — Jen Kirkman Copy Share Image
The photographs are not illustrative. They, and the text, are coequal, mutually independent, and fully collaborative. By their fewness, and by the… — Walker Evans Copy Share Image
I am very much into politics, but what interests me is sacred principles applied to that area. You know, many people are… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
These international bankers and Rockefeller Standard Oil interests control the majority of newspapers and the columns of these papers to club into… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
With Arsenal there was an interest but not a big as other clubs. That is why I didn't go to Arsenal and… — N'Golo Kante Copy Share Image
. . . All artists’ work is autobiographical. Any writer’s work is a map of their psyche. You can really see what… — Kim Addonizio Copy Share Image
I think I have a sense right in the beginning of how big an idea it is and how much room it… — Lydia Davis Copy Share Image
Some dogs could play fetch all day long, while others have absolutely no interest in chasing a ball. Some might love "find… — Cesar Millan Copy Share Image
To get the bad customs of a country changed and new ones, though better, introduced, it is necessary first to remove the… — Benjamin Franklin Copy Share Image
Government is instituted for the common good; for the protection, safety, prosperity, and happiness of the people; and not for profit, honor,… — John Adams Copy Share Image
The dollar represents a one dollar debt to the Federal Reserve System. The Federal Reserve Banks create money out of thin air… — Wright Patman Copy Share Image
There happened in the Middle Ages what has happened so often since then. Those who were the beneficiaries of the established order… — Henri Pirenne Copy Share Image
It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests. — Ivy Compton-Burnett Copy Share Image
Every year Swedish society produces a new generation of threatened women who can testify to the lack of legal rights and the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is still a tendency to regard any existing government intervention as desirable, to attribute all evils to the market, and to… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
The interest of [businessmen] is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public ... The proposal… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
unlike other countries, we're not skeptical at all when it comes to EU expansion. In fact, we are in favor of admitting… — Lech Kaczynski Copy Share Image
If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are… — Sun Tzu Copy Share Image
We fought the Revolutionary War for no taxation without representation, it seems to me that we are much worse off today, because… — James Montgomery Copy Share Image
Let’s begin with capitalism, a word that has gone largely out of fashion. The approved reference now is to the market system.… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
I know Hillary Clinton as a person. And as a personal friend, I would say yes, she'd be a good president. But… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
On average, an underserved consumer spends 10% of their disposable income on unnecessary fees and interest rates. — Dan Schulman Copy Share Image
The basic principles of democracy should be observed whatever the country - principles such as civil liberties, a free market, a free… — Vladimir Putin Copy Share Image
My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance,… — John Sununu Copy Share Image
The Seventeenth Amendment serves not the public's interest but the interests of the governing masterminds and their disciples. Its early proponents advanced… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What historians will definitely wonder about in future centuries is how deeply flawed logic, obscured by shrewd and unrelenting propaganda, actually enabled… — Richard Lindzen Copy Share Image
Congressional investigations...are still being held on the problem of unidentified flying objects and the problem is one in which there is quite… — William Hanes Ayres Copy Share Image
When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the… — David Korten Copy Share Image
Our whole system of banks is a violation of every honest principle of banks. There is no honest bank but a bank… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Every generation is a secret society and has incommunicable enthusiasms, tastes, and interests which are a mystery both to its predecessors and… — John Jay Chapman Copy Share Image
Remember that in most cases, student loan debt is not dischargeable in bankruptcy. So you continue to pay it off anyway. Those… — Suze Orman Copy Share Image
All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence,… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
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