Interests Quotes
1840 Interests quotes by 1363 unique authors
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A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but…
— Herman Kahn
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Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.
— Steven Johnson
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To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations,…
— Irving Langmuir
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A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts…
— Lord Acton
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I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed…
— Jim Henson
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Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in…
— Regina Brett
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Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.
— Eric Hoffer
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When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be…
— Stanley Fish
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Billionaires prefer Black women. They are loyal and guard your interests. Black wives are for grown ups.
— Ben Horowitz
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The Hamas has taken the path of avoiding causing harm to Zionist interests outside of Palestine, not from weakness or lack of ability to do…
— Ahmed Yassin
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If the state, with all of the emotional resources at its command, cannot finance its most basic and vital activities without resort to compulsion, it…
— Mancur Olson
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Trade book publishing is by nature a cottage industry, decentralized, improvisational, personal; best performed by small groups of like-minded people, devoted to their craft, jealous…
— Jason Epstein
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The human interest, and the natural interest, and the spiritual interest of this planet need to begin to take a priority over the corporate interest,…
— Michael Franti
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The music industry has been hijacked by corporate interests, but the way music affects people and resonates with them hasn't changed.
— Michael Franti
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It's all about being a part of something in the community, socializing with people who share interests and coming together to help improve the world…
— Zach Braff
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Peace is a never ending process... It cannot ignore our differences or overlook our common interests. It requires us to work and live together.
— Oscar Arias
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Childhood is not merely basic training for utilitarian adulthood. It should have some claims upon our mercy, not for its future value to the economic…
— Jonathan Kozol
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Land began to be seen as something to be owned privately and exploited for private interests, and never was entirely reconciled with the old ideas…
— Neil Abercrombie
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After all, if there is no class stratification in a society, it follows that there is no state, because the state arose as an instrument…
— Walter Rodney
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It is in line with the fundamental interests of the two peoples for China and Afghanistan to strengthen a strategic and cooperative partnership, which is…
— Zhou Yongkang
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Hong Kong compatriots will surely display great love for the motherland and for Hong Kong and take it as their utmost honor to maintain long-term…
— Jiang Zemin
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One of the sources of pride in being a human being is the ability to bear present frustrations in the interests of longer purposes.
— Helen Lynd
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They have no allegiance to Atlantic City whatsoever, other than nostalgia, and that doesn't pay the bills, ... The Miss America pageant has to do…
— Unknown Author
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The vegan believes that if we are to be true emancipators of animals we must renounce absolutely our traditional and conceited attitude that we have…
— Donald Watson
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