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• Because of my Portuguese heritage, I have an interest in all of the instrumentation that comes from Portugal and Brazil as well.

  Nelly Furtado

  Heritage, Brazil, Portugal

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• I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else

  Laurell K. Hamilton

  Writing, Literature, Host

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• What interests me about genre is that the public connects immediately with it, it has certain rules, certain codes the audience recognizes. I can use that to create something very big.

  Jacques Audiard

  Genre Is, Use, Bigs

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• The cinema that interests me departs from realism.

  Jacques Audiard

  Cinema, Realism

  "Discovering how to navigate the world", www.smh.com.au. March 28, 2013.

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• It is always pleasant to learn that someone takes an interest in a work which one enjoyed writing

  James Schuyler

  Writing, Pleasant, Enjoyed

  James Schuyler (2004). “Just the Thing: Selected Letters of James Schuyler, 1951-1991”

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• Plenty of kind, decent, caring people have no religious beliefs, and they act out of the goodness of their hearts. Conversely, plenty of people who profess to be religious, even those who worship regularly, show no particular interest in the world beyond themselves.

  John C. Danforth

  Religious, Heart, Caring

  "Faith and Politics". Book by John Danforth, p. 186, September 19, 2006.

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• Allowing the U.S. government to intimidate its people with threats of retaliation for revealing wrongdoing is contrary to the public interest.

  Edward Snowden

  Government, People, Intimidating

  "NSA whistleblower whereabouts reportedly unknown as authorities consider charges", www.foxnews.com. June 11, 2013.

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• The great danger in today's world, pervaded as it is by consumerism, is the desolation and anguish born of a complacent yet covetous heart, the feverish pursuit of frivolous pleasures, and a blunted conscience. Whenever our interior life becomes caught up in its own interests and concerns, there is no longer room for others, no place for the poor.

  Pope Francis

  Heart, World, Today

  Pope Francis (2015). “The Spirit of St Francis: Inspiring Words on Faith, Love and Creation”, p.92, SPCK

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• I am under obligations to most of those advisers for the pains and interest they took in my case; but only to one for an effectual remedy.

  William Banting

  Pain, Cases, Obligation

  William Banting (1864). “Letter on Corpulence: Addressed to the Public”, p.13

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• I do a lot of referendums. They can't talk back. They don't have wives. They don't have friends who tell you how to run the campaign. They are supported by special interests, so there's a lot of money in them.

  Roger Stone

  Running, Wife, Special

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• I have decided that I won't take up assignments that don't interest me.

  Lata Mangeshkar

  Assignments, Decided

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• The real scientific study of the distribution of wealth has, we must confess, scarcely begun. The conventional academic study of the so-called theory of distribution into rent, interest, wages, and profits is only remotely related to the subject. This subject, the causes and cures for the actual distribution of capital and income among real persons, is one of the many now in need of our best efforts as scientific students of society.

  Irving Fisher

  Real, Best Effort, Income

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• I simply cannot see how denying chemotherapy treatment for Palestinian children increases Israel's security or advances U.S. national interests.

  Lois Capps

  Children, Israel, Chemotherapy

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• Let no one ever shy away from the claim that Jews have power, that Jews have influence. We have learned the terrible lesson of history; that unless we have influence and power, disproportionate to our small numbers - immoral results will occur. We need power. And we must continue to use our power. Power which we earned, power which no one gave us on a silver platter, power which we worked hard for - use that power in the interests of justice.

  Alan Dershowitz

  Silver Platter, Small Numbers, Influence And Power

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• In my garden I spend my days, in my library I spend my nights. My interests are divided between my geraniums and my books. With the flower I am in the present; with the book I am in the past.

  Alexander Smith

  Flower, Book, Past

  Alexander Smith (1946). “Books and Gardens”

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• Treason is a strong word, but not too strong to characterize the situation in which the Senate is the eager, resourceful, and indefatigable agent of interests as hostile to the American people as any invading army could be.

  David Graham Phillips

  Strong, Army, People

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• A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is privately concentrated. The growth of the nation, therefore, and all our activities are in the hands of a few men who, even if their action be honest and intended for the public interest, are necessarily concentrated upon the great undertakings in which their own money is involved and who necessarily, by very reason of their own limitations, chill and check and destroy genuine economic freedom.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Men, Hands, Growth

  Woodrow Wilson (2016). “The New Freedom: [Illustrated & Biography Added]”, p.117, eKitap Projesi via PublishDrive

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• He who is infatuated with Man leaves persons out of account so far as that infatuation extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. Man, you see, is not a person, but an ideal, a spook.

  Max Stirner

  Men, Sacred, Infatuation

  Max Stirner (1995). “Stirner: The Ego and its Own”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• The proletariat uses the State not in the interests of freedom but in order to hold down its adversaries, and as soon as it becomes possible to speak of freedom the State as such ceases to exist.

  Friedrich Engels

  Order, Use, Speak

  Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels (1968). “Selected works [of] Karl Marx and Frederick Engels”

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• Anarchists are opposed to violence; everyone knows that. The main plank of anarchism is the removal of violence from human relations. It is life based on freedom of the individual, without the intervention of the gendarme. For this reason we are the enemies of capitalism which depends on the protection of the gendarme to oblige workers to allow themselves to be exploited--or even to remain idle and go hungry when it is not in the interest of the bosses to exploit them. We are therefore enemies of the State which is the coercive violent organization of society.

  Errico Malatesta

  Organization, Boss, Enemy

  Errico Malatesta (2015). “Life and Ideas: The Anarchist Writings of Errico Malatesta”, p.45, PM Press

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• The Revolutionist is a doomed man. He has no private interests, no affairs, sentiments, ties, property nor even a name of his own. His entire being is devoured by one purpose, one thought, one passion - the revolution. Heart and soul, not merely by word but by deed, he has severed every link with the social order and with the entire civilized world; with the laws, good manners, conventions, and morality of that world. He is its merciless enemy and continues to inhabit it with only one purpose - to destroy it.

  Sergey Nechayev

  Passion, Heart, Men

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• We can hope that men will understand that the interest of all are the same, that hope lies in cooperation. We can then perhaps keep PEACE.

  Alva Myrdal

  Lying, Men, Cooperation

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• Always we must bear in mind that law has to be substituted for power, that care must be taken to serve the interests of law.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Taken, Law, Mind

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• After all, despite the economic advantage to firms that employed child labor, it was in the social interest, as a national policy, to abolish it - removing that advantage for all firms.

  Barry Commoner

  Children, Economic, Child Labor

  Interview With Alan Hall, www.scientificamerican.com. June 23, 1997.

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• Our Savior gave Himself in unselfish service. He taught that each of us should follow Him by denying ourselves of selfish interests in order to serve others.

  Dallin H. Oaks

  Selfish, Order, Taught

  "Unselfish Service". Dallin H. Oaks' address at the General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, www.lds.org. April 2009.

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