Ethics doesn't require us to ignore our self-interests or demand a life of self-sacrifice. It requires that we know the difference between… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
First of all, Shakespeare is about pleasure and interest. He was from the first moment he actually wrote something for the stage,… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
I don't think a guy that really has no understanding about people, or has no interest in understanding people would make a… — Stanley Clarke Copy Share Image
“When you work to please others you can't succeed, but the things you do to satisfy yourself stand a chance if catching… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
If you want to interest people, make them think. If you want to inspire people, make them feel. — Ron Kaufman Copy Share Image
I'm uncomfortable with selfies and status updates documenting mundane pieces of my life, which I don't think should be of interest to… — Hozier Copy Share Image
A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me. — Alan Cumming Copy Share Image
The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed. — Michael Franti Copy Share Image
The only thing that shocks me is public interest in people who shouldn't be interesting at all, like Jade Goody. We've gone… — Marco Pirroni Copy Share Image
Books of quick interest, that hurry on for incidents are for the eye to glide over only. It will not do to… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
Anybody who's ever mattered, anybody who's ever been happy, anybody who's ever given any gift into the world has been a divinely… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Even if this advice to portfolio decision makers to drop dead is good advice, it obviously is not counsel that will be… — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
I'm oftentimes asked, What difference does it make to America if people are dying of malaria in a place like Ghana? It… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
Because the free market system is so weak politically, the forms of capitalism that are experienced in many countries are very far… — Raghuram Rajan Copy Share Image
In reviewing the history of the English Government, its wars and its taxes, a bystander, not blinded by prejudice nor warped by… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
My interest in gospel music and liturgical art and Biblically-inspired literature has nothing to do with organised religion and everything to do… — Moby Copy Share Image
We exist because of suburbia. Suburbia is a freak’s dreamworld, a world of extra rooms upstairs and long, lazy afternoons with no… — Dana Spiotta Copy Share Image
Many of us are returning from a long journey during which we were forced to search for things that were of no… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Well, good science fiction is intelligent. It asks big questions that are on people's minds. It's not impossible. It has some sort… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
Zionism is an abominable, racist and colonial movement. Like all colonial and apartheid systems, it's in the interest of all that it… — Vittorio Arrigoni Copy Share Image
[T]he most common and durable source of factions has been the various and unequal distribution of property. Those who hold and those… — James Madison Copy Share Image
I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence,… — Lawrence Lessig Copy Share Image
Once a reporter stood in front of a fire as it consumed a house and then he turned to see the homeowners… — Barbara Johnson Copy Share Image
What we also have to recognize is that the deficit levels that I'm inheriting, over a trillion dollars, coming out of last… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The moral sense is always supported by the permanent interest of the parties. Else, I know not how, in our world, any… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
You do not wake up one morning a bad person. It happens by a thousand tiny surrenders of self-respect to self-interest. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Saying he is in Afghanistan in a spirit of brotherhood, we have also vowed that we will not allow each other's countries,… — Pervez Musharraf Copy Share Image
Historically, usury was defined as any interest whatever on an unproductive loan.Our whole banking system I have ever abhorred, I continue to… — John Adams Copy Share Image
Nebraska and Indiana were really the only Division One schools that expressed any interest in me. — Jordan Burroughs Copy Share Image
Enthusiasm gives life to what is invisible; and interest to what has no immediate action on our comfort in this world. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
I care about Bond and what happens to him. You cannot be connected with a character for this long and not have… — Sean Connery Copy Share Image
There is no better friendship booster than the ability to listen. The ability to show genuine interest in others is an admirable… — Phil Callaway Copy Share Image
We weren't rich people, but my parents and I shared an interest in the theater and so we went a lot. And… — Billy Eichner Copy Share Image
I’ve long advised that bloggers seeking to make money from blogging spread their interests across multiple revenue streams so as not to… — Darren Rowse Copy Share Image
It is to the interest of the commonwealth of mankind that there should be someone who is unconquered, someone against whom fortune… — Seneca the Younger 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
The State's your mother, your father, the totality of your interests. No discipline can be too severe for the man that denies… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the… — Peter Jennings Copy Share Image
I think the money that I've got is a consequence of the activities I've been doing and the interests that I've had… — Clive Palmer Copy Share Image
I have an interest in giving people a cathartic experience, and making them look at homeless people differently, and making them question… — Paul Bettany Copy Share Image
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