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• I had given up ( around 1950, fh) any ambition of making a career as an artist…..I had lost all interest in the art shown in galleries and museums, and I no longer aspired to fit in that world. I loved the paintings done by children, and my only desire was to do the same for my own pleasure.

  Jean Dubuffet

  Art, Children, Ambition

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• The evil, Sir, is enormous; the inevitable suffering incalculable. Do not stain the fair fame of the country. . . . Nations of dependent Indians, against their will, under color of law, are driven from their homes into the wilderness. You cannot explain it; you cannot reason it away. . . . Our friends will view this measure with sorrow, and our enemies alone with joy. And we ourselves, Sir, when the interests and passions of the day are past, shall look back upon it, I fear, with self-reproach, and a regret as bitter as unavailing.

  Edward Everett

  Country, Regret, Passion

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• Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests.

  Robert Hugh Benson

  Sacrifice, Reality, Competition

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• Science is the only news. When you scan a news portal or magazine, all the human interest stuff is the same old he-said-she-said, the politics and economics the same cyclical dramas, the fashions a pathetic illusion of newness; even the technology is predictable if you know the science behind it. Human nature doesn't change much; science does, and the change accrues, altering the world irreversibly

  Stewart Brand

  Fashion, Drama, Technology

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• If a State has reliable scientific information that demonstrates that a warning is needed for a particular food, then in the interest of public health, it should share that information with the FDA and petition for a new national standard.

  Nathan Deal

  Fda, Warning, Information

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• With such a deep rooted interest you can withstand the setbacks and failures, the days of drudgery, and the hard work that are always a part of any creative action. You can ignore the doubters and critics. You will then feel personally committed to solving the problem and will not rest until you do so.

  Robert Greene

  Hard Work, Creative, Doubters

  Robert Greene (2012). “Mastery”, p.179, Penguin

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• There are two equal and opposite errors into which our race can fall about the devils. One is to disbelieve in their existence. The other is to believe, and to feel an excessive and unhealthy interest in them. They themselves are equally pleased by both errors and hail a materialist or a magician with the same delight.

  C. S. Lewis

  Believe, Fall, Errors

  C. S. Lewis (2009). “The Screwtape Letters: Letters from a Senior to a Junior Devil”, p.8, HarperCollins UK

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• If diversity is what is a central value in every selective university in the United States, then it ought to be seen as a compelling interest by the Supreme Court.

  Eleanor Holmes Norton

  Diversity, United States, Court

  "Is affirmative action necessary?", www.cnn.com. December 5, 2002.

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• Politicians will pander to special-interest groups eager to gain at the public expense.

  Donald J. Boudreaux

  Political, Special, Groups

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• I recommend allowing others the opportunity to fully express themselves before turning our attention to solutions or requests for relief. When we proceed too quickly to what people might be requesting, we may not convey our genuine interest in their feelings and needs; instead, they may get the impression that we're in a hurry to either be free of them or to fix their problem. Furthermore, an initial message is often like the tip of an iceberg; it may be followed by yet unexpressed, but related - and often more powerful - feelings.

  Marshall B. Rosenberg

  Powerful, Opportunity, People

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• The English public takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.

  Oscar Wilde

  Art, Insulting, England

  Oscar Wilde (2016). “Miscellanies”, p.135, Oscar Wilde

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• Listen to your parents. Be obedient to them whether you agree with them or not. They love you more than anyone else and have your best interests at heart.

  James E. Faust

  Love, Heart, Parent

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• Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs

  Jim Clyburn

  House, Balance, Environmental

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• It's wrong to put the drug lobby's interests ahead of older Americans.

  John B. Larson

  Drug

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• Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not so... Proper debunking is done in the interest of an alternate model of explanation, not as a nihilistic exercise. The alternate model is rationality itself, tied to moral decency--the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Powerful, Rap, Exercise

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• A big business never becomes big by being a narrow society looking after only the interests of its organization and stockholders.

  Henry Ford

  Organization, Bigs, Big Business

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• Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current

  William Peter Blatty

  Doe, Littles, Horror

  Interview with Lucy A. Snyder, www.lucysnyder.com. July 26, 1999.

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• We have said that the State must not absorb the individual or the family; both should be allowed free and untrammelled action so far as is consistent with the common good and the interest of others. Rulers should, nevertheless, anxiously safeguard the community and all its members; the community, because the conservation thereof is so emphatically the business of the supreme power, that the safety of the commonwealth is not only the first law, but it is a government's whole reason of existence.

  Pope Leo XIII

  Government, Law, Safety

  Pope Leo XIII (1990). “A Light in the Heavens: Great Encyclical Letters of Pope Leo XIII”, p.157, TAN Books

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• Ladies, we must remind ourselves that the weapon of the vote will be for us, just as it is for man, the only means of obtaining the reforms we desire. As long as we remain excluded from civic life, men will attend to their own interests rather than to our.

  Hubertine Auclert

  Mean, Men, Long

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• I first met Jimmy Page in London in 1961, and he was listening to James Burton, Scotty Moore and Cliff Gallup with Gene Vincent, as was I ... these were the rock and roll guys who really sparked our interest in the guitar, and later we delved into other things and went different directions ... during my time with Eric Clapton, we talked about what we'd listened to early on, and he was a huge fan of Chuck Berry and Jerry Lee Lewis

  Albert Lee

  Music, Guitar, Rock And Roll

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• Ive never had any interest at all in being a journalist or writing some sort of historically accurate autobiography.

  James Frey

  Writing, Accurate, Autobiography

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• The U.S. must renounce any U.S. interest in constructing permanent U.S. military bases in Iraq.

  Peter DeFazio

  Military, Iraq, Renounce

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• You would hardly believe how difficult it is to place a figure alone on a canvas, and to concentrate all the interest on this single and universal figure and still keep it living and real.

  Edouard Manet

  Real, Believe, Canvas

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• I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to write the life of a great man. I had zero interest in that. My interest is in power. How power works.

  Robert Caro

  Zero, Book, Writing

  "Robert Caro: a life with LBJ and the pursuit of power" by Chris McGreal, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2012.

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• The American Fascists are most easily recognized by their deliberate perversion of truth and fact.... They cultivate hate and distrust of both Britain and Russia. They claim to be super-patriots, but they would destroy every liberty guaranteed by the Constitution. They demand free enterprise, but are the spokesmen for monopoly and vested interest. Their final objective, toward which all their deceit is directed, is to capture political power, so that using the power of the State and the power of the market simultaneously they may keep the common man in eternal subjection.

  Henry A. Wallace

  Hate, Men, Russia

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