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• Everybody says that they're against the special interests. I'm the only one the special interests don't give any money to.

  John McCain

  Giving, Special, Special Interests

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• My process of being inspired is very intuitive. Im constantly following my interest.

  Jeff Koons

  Inspired, Process, Following

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• Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinved that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.

  Daniel Patrick Moynihan

  Heart, Devil, Littles

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• Men are to be guided only by their self-interests. Good government is a good balancing of these; and, except a keen eye and appetite for self-interest, requires no virtue in any quarter. To both parties it is emphatically a machine: to the discontented, a taxing-machine; to the contented, a machine for securing property. Its duties and its faults are not those of a father, but of an active parish-constable.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Father, Party, Eye

  Thomas Carlyle, A.H.R. Ball (2014). “Selections from Carlyle”, p.111, Cambridge University Press

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• Nothing in the whole world is of interest to me but my painting and my flowers.

  Claude Monet

  Art, Flower, World

  Christoph Heinrich, Claude Monet (1994). “Monet”, Taschen

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• What interests me most is neither still life nor landscape, but the human figure.

  Henri Matisse

  Art, Landscape, Figures

  "Matisse on Art".

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• I had all the normal interests - I played basketball and I headed the school paper. But I also developed very early a great love for music and literature and the theater.

  Carlisle Floyd

  Inspirational, Basketball, School

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• Except ye become as little children, except you can wake on your fiftieth birthday with the same forward-looking excitement and interest in life that you enjoyed when you were five, "ye cannot enter the kingdom of God." One must not only die daily, but every day we must be born again.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Birthday, Children, Turning 50

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• I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

  Nolan Ryan

  Sports, Baseball, Would Be

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• The man who is extremely and dangerously hungry has no other interest but food. Capacities not useful for the satisfying of hunger are pushed into the background. 'But what happens to man's desires when there is plenty of food and his belly in chronically filled? At once, other (and higher) needs emerge and these, rather than the psychological hungers, dominate the organism.

  Betty Friedan

  Men, Desire, Needs

  BETTY FRIEDAN (1963). “The Feminine Mystique”

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• I stand before you today as a candidate for the Democratic nomination for the presidency of the United States. I am not the candidate of black America, although I am black and proud. I'm not the candidate of the women's movement of this country, although I am a woman, and I'm equally proud of that. I am not the candidate of any political bosses or fat cats or special interests... I am the candidate of the people...

  Shirley Chisholm

  Country, America, People

  "African-American and Female in One Candidate". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. January 24, 2008.

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• Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, People, Broken

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

  Edward Abbey

  Intellectual, Earth, Care

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• One need not be a prophet to be aware of impending dangers. An accidental combination of experience and interest will often reveal events to one man under aspects which few yet see.

  Friedrich August von Hayek

  Men, Events, Needs

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• Treat all economic questions from the viewpoint of the consumer, for the interests of the consumer are the interests of the human race.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Race, Political, Viewpoints

  Frederic Bastiat (2001). “Economic Fallacies”, p.61, Simon Publications LLC

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• When Men are irritated, and the Passions inflamed, they fly hastily and cheerfully to Arms; but after the first emotions are over, to expect, among such People, as compose the bulk of an Army, that they are influenced by any other principles than those of Interest, is to look for what never did, and I fear never will happen

  George Washington

  Passion, Army, Men

  George Washington, Jared Sparks (1839). “The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private”, p.111

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• Let me now warn you in the most solemn manner against the baneful effects of the spirit of party. The common and continual mischiefs of the spirit of party are sufficient to make it the interest and duty of a wise people to discourage and restrain it. It serves always to distract the public councils and enfeeble the public administration. It agitates the community with ill-founded jealousies and false alarms; kindles the animosity of one part against another. In governments purely elective, it is a spirit not to be encouraged.

  George Washington

  Wise, Party, Government

  George Washington’s "Farewell Address", oll.libertyfund.org. September 19, 1796.

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• No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.

  Thomas Paine

  Debt, Bears, Cases

  Thomas Paine (2015). “The Thomas Paine Collection: Common Sense, Rights of Man, Age of Reason, An Essay on Dream, Biblical Blasphemy, Examination Of The Prophecies”, p.27, Ravenio Books

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• To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time

  Phil Collins

  Albums, Records, Want

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• If anyone can show me one example in the history of the world of a single spiritual person who has been able to show either empirically or logically the existence of a higher power with any consciousness or interest in the human race or ability to punish or reward humans for their moral choices or that there is any reason other than fear to believe in any version of an afterlife, I will give you my piano, one of my legs and my wife.

  Tim Minchin

  Spiritual, Believe, Race

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• No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause, because his interest would certainly bias his judgment.

  James Madison

  Men, Judging, Causes

  James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, John Jay (2016). “The Federalist Papers: The Making of the US Constitution”, p.43, Arcturus Publishing

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• The constitution ought to secure a genuine militia and guard against a select militia. ...All regulations tending to render this general militia useless and defenseless, by establishing select corps of militia, or distinct bodies of military men, not having permanent interests and attachments to the community ought to be avoided.

  Richard Henry Lee

  Military, Men, Community

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• That is why everyone in politics, and we do it, must make sure that they do not depend on one single interest group. A good compromise is one where everybody makes a contribution.

  Angela Merkel

  Groups, Compromise, Contribution

  Interview with Bertrand Benoit and Andrew Gowers, www.ft.com. July 20, 2005.

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• The greatest and most important problems of life are all in a certain sense insoluble. They can never be solved, but only outgrown. This 'outgrowing', as I formerly called it, on further experience was seen to consist in a new level of consciousness. Some higher or wider interest arose on the person's horizon, and through this widening of view, the insoluble problem lost its urgency. It was not solved logically in its own terms, but faded out when confronted with a new and stronger life-tendency.

  Carl Jung

  Views, Important, Stronger

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• To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.

  John Stuart Mill

  Thinking, Ninety Nine, Government

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Considerations on Representative Government”, p.22, John Stuart Mill

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