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• The thousand mysteries around us would not trouble but interest us, if only we had cheerful, healthy hearts.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Inspirational, Hate, Health

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• So, let us not be blind to our differences - but let us also direct attention to our common interests and to the means by which those differences can be resolved.

  John F. Kennedy

  Mean, Differences, Attention

  American University Commencement Address, delivered 10 June 1963

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• My country's history, Mr. President, tells us that it is possible to fashion unity while cherishing diversity, that common action is possible despite the variety of races, interests, and beliefs we see here in this chamber. Progress and peace and justice are attainable. So we say to all peoples and governments: Let us fashion together a new world order.

  Henry A. Kissinger

  Country, Fashion, World Government

  Address for the UN General Assembly, October 1975.

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• The allegations of me being a pedophile are spurious, at best. However I will admit that taking my knickers off in the park and having an Easter Egg hunt with those apple-cheeked four year olds was in my best interest and not theirs

  Thom Yorke

  Easter, Years, Eggs

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• Neither of us knows what the public will think. There's no doubt in my mind that I have found out how to begin (at forty) to say something in my own voice; and that interests me so that I feel I can go ahead without praise.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Voice, Doubt

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.4325, Delphi Classics

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• All intervening steps, scribbles, sketches, drawings, failed work models, studies thoughts, conversations, are of interest. Those that show the thought process of the artist are sometimes more interesting than the final product

  Sol LeWitt

  Artist, Drawing, Interesting

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• My interest in desperation lies only in that sometimes I find myself having become desperate. Very seldom do I start out that way. I can see of course that, in the abstract, thinking and all activity is rather desperate.

  Willem de Kooning

  Lying, Thinking, Way

  Willem De Kooning (1979). “Willem de Kooning: Pittsburgh International Series, October 26, 1979-January 6, 1980, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute”

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• It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest.

  Arlen Specter

  Political, Risk, Today

  "Face to Face" with Bill Plante, www.cbsnews.com. March 21, 2012.

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• Never appeal to a man's 'better nature.' He may not have one. Invoking his self-interest gives you more leverage.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Nature, Men, Self

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.227, Penguin

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• It is because God is infinitely great and good that his glory is the end of all things; and his good pleasure the highest reason for whatever comes to pass. What is man that he should contend with God, or presume that his interests rather than God's glory should be made the final end?

  Charles Hodge

  Men, Finals, Glory

  Charles Hodge (1872). “Systematic Theology”, p.339

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• The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character, and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man.

  William Graham Sumner

  Character, Men, Views

  William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.107, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The highest-income Americans don't need tax-free health insurance, mortgage interest deductions or deferred taxation on retirement funds.

  Steven Rattner

  Retirement, Income, Needs

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• An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others.

  George Soros

  Degrees, Economy, Members

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• Although NFL teams have common interests such as promoting the NFL brand, they are still separate, profit-making entities, and their interests in licensing team trademarks are not necessarily aligned

  John Paul Stevens

  Team, Nfl, Common

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• As a matter of constitutional tradition, in the absence of evidence to the contrary, we presume that governmental regulation of the content of speech is more likely to interfere with the free exchange of ideas than to encourage it. The interest in encouraging freedom of expression in a democratic society outweighs any theoretical but unproven benefit of censorship.

  John Paul Stevens

  Government, Expression, Ideas

  "Excerpts From Ruling on Internet: 'Statute Abridges the Freedom of Speech'". www.nytimes.com. June 27, 1997.

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• We want only peace, to build up our country. World opinion is paying great attention to the threat against Democratic Kampuchea. They are anxious, they fear Kampuchea cannot oppose the Vietnamese. This could hurt the interests of the Southeast Asian countries and all of the world's countries.

  Pol Pot

  Country, Hurt, Asian

  "Pol Pot remembered" by Elizabeth Becker, news.bbc.co.uk. April 20, 1998.

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• Stealing from capitalism is not like stealing out of our own pockets. Marx and Lenin have taught us that anything is ethical, so long as it is in the interest of the proletarian class and its world revolution.

  Nicolae Ceausescu

  Taught Us, Class, Long

  "Red Horizons: Chronicles of a Communist Spy Chief". Book by Ion Mihai Pacepa, p. 47, 1987.

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• We’re looking for good lawsuits that will establish the interests of animals as a legitimate area of concern in law.

  Ingrid Newkirk

  Animal, Law, Peta

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• There are certain themes of which the interest is all-absorbing, but which are too entirely horrible for the purposes of legitimate fiction.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Purpose, Fiction, Certain

  Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.308, University of Illinois Press

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• So far from engaging in a war to perpetuate slavery, I am rejoiced that Slavery is abolished. I believe it will be greatly for the interest of the South. So fully am I satisfied of this that I would have cheerfully lost all that I have lost by the war, and have suffered all that I have suffered to have this object attained.

  Robert E. Lee

  War, Believe, Slavery

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• My interest has always been in an architecture which reflects the modernity of our epoch as opposed to the rethinking of historical references. My work deals with what is happening now—our techniques and materials, what we are capable of doing today.

  Jean Nouvel

  Historical, Today, Technique

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• I will advocate for Kentucky's interests.

  Rand Paul

  Kentucky

  "Obama, Civil Rights Centerpiece of Kentucky Senate Debate". www.foxnews.com. October 11, 2010.

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• If we did go into a recession, something that's always possible for the U.S. or Europe, we could lower interest rates and expand the money supply without worrying about the price of gold.

  Jeffrey Sachs

  Europe, Worry, Gold

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• I found my interest lapse in both acting and racing.

  Lillie Langtry

  Racing, Acting, Lapses

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• If the regular length of a shot is increased, one becomes bored, but if you keep on making it longer, it piques your interest, and if you make it even longer, a new quality emerges, a special intensity of attention.

  Andrei Tarkovsky

  Bored, Special, Quality

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