Interests Quotes
1840 Interests quotes by 1363 unique authors
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A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything.
— Laurence Sterne
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I never think about my best interests. I think about what's the right thing to do in a situation.
— Clive Palmer
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I find the love of garden grows upon me as I grow older more and more. Shrubs and flowers and such small gay things, that…
— Maria Edgeworth
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Since there is no such entity as 'the public,' since the public is merely a number of individuals, the idea that 'the public interest' supersedes…
— Ayn Rand
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Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with…
— Neville Chamberlain
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One of the great secrets of the day is to know how to take possession of popular prejudices and passions, in such a way as…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Praying puts us at risk of getting involved in God's conditions. Be slow to pray. Praying most often doesn't get us what we want but…
— Eugene H. Peterson
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Often it is hard. So hard, in fact, that Jesus' decree to love and pray for our opponents is regarded as one of the most…
— Lee Strobel
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Whenever the dollar is held supreme and capitalistic interests dominate, a higher value will always be placed upon property rights than upon human rights.
— Dick Gregory
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If not in the interests of the state, do not act. If you cannot succeed, do not use troops. If you are not in danger,…
— Sun Tzu
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The General who in advancing does not seek personal fame, and in withdrawing is not concerned with avoiding punishment, but whose only purpose is to…
— Sun Tzu
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War is a conflict of great interests which is settled by bloodshed, and only in that is it different from others.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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When the institutions of money rule the world, it is perhaps inevitable that the interests of money will take precedence over the interests of people.…
— David Korten
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From all these facts there emerges a very simple abstract program for the teacher to follow in keeping the attention of the child: Begin with…
— William James
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The exercise of voluntary attention in the schoolroom must therefore be counted one of the most important points of training that take place there; and…
— William James
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I strongly recommend that students with autism get involved in special interest clubs in some of the areas they naturally excel at. Being with people…
— Temple Grandin
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I can tell you this. It is not going to be evenly constituted and when she was Speaker Pelosi, she certainly showed no interests in…
— Trey Gowdy
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The representatives of business interests are the men to start this enterprise among our people and bring them to a full realization of the very…
— John J. Pershing
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Cultivators of the earth are the most valuable citizens. They are the most vigorous, the most independent, the most virtuous and they are tied to…
— Thomas Jefferson
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All the best stories in the world are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests…
— A. C. Benson
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The truth is that neither British nor American imperialism was or is idealistic. It has always been driven by economic or strategic interests.
— Charley Reese
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This army is powerful because all its members have a conscious discipline; they have come together and they fight not for the private interests of…
— Mao Zedong
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Fascism accepts the individual only insofar as his interests coincide with the state's.
— Benito Mussolini
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Patriotism means advocating plunder in the interests of the privileged class of your particular country. The time will soon come when calling someone a patriot…
— Ernest Belfort Bax
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