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• As we realize that more and more things have global impact, I think we're going to get people increasingly wanting to get away from a purely national interest.

  Peter Singer

  Thinking, Impact, People

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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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• Something is clearly wrong with Kansas and the rest of Middle America when it comes to letting economic self-interest guide their voting.

  Howell Raines

  Self, Kansas, America

  "Obama, don't run from class warfare" by Howell Raines, www.cnn.com. September 27, 2011.

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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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• In the first place, most princes apply themselves to the arts of war, in which I have neither ability nor interest, instead of to the good arts of peace. They are generally more set on acquiring new kingdoms by hook or by crook than on governing well those that they already have.

  Thomas More

  Art, War, Crooks

  1516 Utopia (English translation1556), bk.1.

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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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• Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant; a marriage of interest, easy; and a marriage where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and, indeed, all the sweets of life.

  Joseph Addison

  Sweet, Love Is, Happy Marriage

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steel (1858). “The Spectator”, p.324

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• Social Security is a government program with a constituency made up of the old, the near old and those who hope or fear to grow old. After 215 years of trying, we have finally discovered a special interest that includes 100 percent of the population. Now we can vote ourselves rich.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Government, Years, Special

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Parliament of Whores: A Lone Humorist Attempts to Explain the Entire U.S. Government”, p.220, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• Where self-interest is violently suppressed, it is replaced by a burdensome system of bureaucratic control which dries up the wellsprings of initiative and creativity.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Creativity, Self, Initiative

  "Centesimus Annus". Encyclical Letter by Pope John Paul II, w2.vatican.va. May 01, 1991.

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• Tis against some mens principle to pay interest, and seems against others interest to pay the principle.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Men, Principles, Debt

  Benjamin Franklin, Ormond Seavey (1998). “Autobiography and Other Writings”, p.283, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The securitisation of mortgages added a new dimension of systemic risk. Financial engineers claimed they were reducing risks through geographic diversification: in fact they were increasing them by creating an agency problem. The agents were more interested in maximising fee income than in protecting the interests of bondholders. That is the verity that was ignored by regulators and market participants alike.

  George Soros

  Creating, Agency, Risk

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• America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.

  George W. Bush

  Moving, Mean, Blood

  First Inaugural Address, delivered 20 January 2001

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• ...convince all nuclear powers, including those which have been more reluctant up to now, of the necessity to respect the "vital interests" of all peoples and to become fully aware of the profound truth of the following conclusion which the United Nations approved by unanimity four years ago: "Mankind is confronted with a choice: we must halt the arms race and proceed to disarmament or face annihilation".

  Alfonso Garcia Robles

  Years, Nuclear Disarmament, Race

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• [...] it is generally accepted that the Civil War was fought over the issue of slavery. That, at best, is a half-truth. Slavery was an issue, but the primary force for war was a clash between the economic interests of the North and the South. Even the issue of slavery itself was based on economics.

  G. Edward Griffin

  War, Issues, Half

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• You were intended not only to work, but to rest, laugh, play, and have proper leisure and enjoyment. To develop an all-around personality you must have interest outside of your regular vocation that will serve to balance your business responsibilities.

  Grenville Kleiser

  Business, Responsibility, Play

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• Isn't it refreshing to know that what comes perfectly natural for you is your greatest strength? Your power is in your nature. You may not think it's a big deal that you can spend hours immersed in something that interests you-alone-but the extrovert next door has no idea how you do it.

  Laurie Helgoe

  Thinking, Doors, Ideas

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• What we do, if we are successful, is to stir interest in the matter at hand, awaken enthusiasm for it, arouse a curiosity, kindle a feeling, fire up the imagination.

  Julius Sumner Miller

  Teacher, Successful, Fire

  "What Science Teaching Needs". Junior College Journal, Volume 38, by American Association of Junior Colleges, Stanford University, 1967.

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• The secret of a good memory is attention, and attention to a subject depends upon our interest in it. We rarely forget that which has made a deep impression on our minds.

  Tryon Edwards

  Memories, Secret, Mind

  Tryon Edwards (1962). “名人語錄”

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• To speak the truth is the most difficult of all arts, for in its "pure" form, not connected with the interests of individuals, groups, classes, or nations, truth is almost completely unsuitable for use by the Philistine and is unacceptable to him.

  Maxim Gorky

  Art, Truth, Class

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• The key to all motivation is desire, and the master key to creating desire is responsiveness to the needs, desires, and interests of the people you would lead.

  John R Noe

  Motivation, Keys, Creating

  John R. Noe (1986). “People Power”, Thomas Nelson Incorporated

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• The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.

  Carlos Fuentes

  Exercise, Self, Order

  Carlos Fuentes (1985). “Latin America: At War With the Past”, House of Anansi Press

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• It's always something that interests me, crafting a really perfect pop gem, but it's not a lifelong obsession. I've kind of moved beyond it. I think I needed to get that out of my system, to exorcise.

  Nicholas Thorburn

  Thinking, Perfect, Kind

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• It's time for me to give out an award to newly elected Majority Leader John Boehner. Mr. Boehner was elected just a few days ago to reform House Republicans, who are feeling the heat from lobbyist scandals. Well, CNN found out that he rents his two-bedroom apartment from a lobbyist who had clients who had interests in legislation that Boehner sponsored. And for that, Mr. Boehner, you've just won a pair of Stephen Colbert's big brass balls.

  Stephen Colbert

  Two, Cnn, Awards

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• What's the real difference between Republicans and Democrats? Let me tell ya the real difference ... Republicans will always take on people in the interest of power and good democrats will never fear to take on the power in the interests of people.

  James Carville

  Real, Differences, People

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• I've spent a great deal of my life doing independent film, and that is partly because the subject matter interests me and partly because that is the basis of the film industry. That's where the film-makers come from, it's where they start and sometimes its where they should have stayed.

  John Hurt

  Independent, Should Have, Matter

  Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. April 27, 2000.

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