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• Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption.

  Arianna Huffington

  Party, Political, Corruption

  Arianna Huffington (2009). “Pigs at the Trough: How Corporate Greed and Political Corruption Are Undermining America”, p.8, Crown

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• John Lott documents how far 'politically correct' vested interests are willing to go to denigrate anyone who dares disagree with them. Lott has done us all a service by his thorough, thoughtful scholarly approach to a highly controversial issue.

  Milton Friedman

  Thoughtful, Issues, Done

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• The 'Little' or 'Barebones' Parliament, summoned by Oliver Cromwell to meet at Westminster on 4th July, 1653, after the dissolution of the remains of the Long Parliament, may have been an unpractical body, so far as the task of administration in troublous times was concerned. But it seems quite possible that the wealth of contumely and scorn which has been poured upon it was, originally, due quite as much to the fierce anger of vested interests against outspoken criticism, as to any real vagueness or want of practical wisdom in the plans of the House itself.

  Edward Jenks

  Real, 4th Of July, Long

  "A Short History Of The English Law" by Edward Jenks.Fiirst edition, ch. XII, Civil Procedure In The Middle Ages, p. 178, 1912.

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• For twenty years it had been generally known that an insidious Lobby was maintained in Washington to influence legislation and executive action on behalf of vested interests. ... The lobby was a creature of darkness. It worked behind closed doors and whispered in corners. This ancient industry was one form of invisible government.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  Business, Doors, Years

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• Federal system is at the heart of Indian democracy but UPA is adamant to break the nation by breaking the federal structure for their vested interests. It's a conspiracy to grab power through the backdoor.

  Narendra Modi

  Heart, Democracy, India

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• People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is.

  Thomas Sowell

  People, Truth Is, Interest

  "Do No Harm: An Interview With Thomas Sowell". Interview with David Harsanyi, thefederalist.com. January 13, 2015.

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• Almost all scholarly research carries practical and political implications. Better that we should spell these out ourselves than leave that task to people with a vested interest in stressing only some of the implications and falsifying others. The idea that academics should remain "above the fray" only gives ideologues license to misuse our work.

  Stephanie Coontz

  Stress, Ideas, People

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• Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy.

  Desmond Tutu

  Trustworthy, Interest, Humans

  Source: www.egonzehnder.com

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• The psychologist Elizabeth Loftus has shown great courage, in the face of spiteful vested interests, in demonstrating how easy it is for people to concoct memories that are entirely false but which seem, to the victim, every bit as real as true memories.

  Richard Dawkins

  Memories, Real, People

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• There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public.

  Gore Vidal

  People, Stupidity, Maintaining

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• Nothing can preserve the integrity of contact between individuals, except a discretionary authority in the state to revise what has become intolerable. The powers of uninterrupted usury are too great. If the accretions of vested interests were to grow without mitigation for many generations, half the population would be no better than slaves to the other half.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Integrity, Generations, Half

  John Maynard Keynes, Royal Economic Society (Great Britain) (1971). “The collected writings of John Maynard Keynes”

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• I was making my work as transparent as possible, without equivocations, without calling attention to itself, without apology. There's a lot of conventions in the art world that are not to be transgressed, but my economy of means doesn't abide by those strictures. There's no reason to abide by them. I don't have any vested interest in it.

  Raymond Pettibon

  Art, Mean, Apology

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it.

  Errol Morris

  Interest, Avoiding, Seeing

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice.

  Arnold J. Toynbee

  Real, Struggle, Justice

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• There is not always 'two sides to every issue.' That statement is a ridiculous slogan invoked by vested interests and perpetuated by minds of limited scope.

  Anton Szandor LaVey

  Two Sides, Issues, Mind

  Anton Szandor LaVey (1998). “Satan Speaks!”, p.29, Feral House

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• Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda.

  Manto Tshabalala-Msimang

  Drug, Fuel, Want

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• When I worked with various healers of one kind or another, very often what came up was that there was an "inner" person who was controlling what was going on in the life of the "outer" person, who thinks he's in control of his life. That inner person has a vested interest in keeping the person from getting well, so the healing doesn't take place.

  Fred Alan Wolf

  Get Well, Healing, Thinking

  Source: www.edgemagazine.net

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• I think I have a vested interest in thinking that the lyrics are important, but I think for us it's important that we all write things that mean something to us, and I think we're not really in the business of writing la-la-love-you chart pop songs. It needs to have a personal pulling in the gut for me, to want to write anything about it.

  Lauren Mayberry

  Song, Love You, Writing

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• My mom used to sell fabric and lace when I was younger. She would bring back these elaborate fabrics from Nigeria. I always enjoyed being around it. However, it wasn't until I started making music that I started taking a vested interest.

  Tinie Tempah

  Mom, Fabric, Lace

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• merica was middle-class for the very start - the people who came first were hyper-strivers from England. There were no vested interests, no ranks, no classes, it was very lightly populated, there were unlimited natural resources - for free essentially - if you failed, you could always start over.

  Charles R. Morris

  Class, People, Starting Over

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes.

  Sylvia Earle

  People, Smoking, Trying

  "Her Majesty Of The Deep Blue Sea: An Interview With Dr. Sylvia Earle, Part One". Interview with Dan Linehan, www.mission-blue.org. January 23, 2013.

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• As regards Hillary C;inton's foreign policy actions and the powerful vested interests she seems gleefully beholden to, including all the biggest players in the military-industrial complex, I feel that she would be no better an actor on the world stage than Trump and whatever coalition of managers he might cobble together.

  Viggo Mortensen

  Powerful, Military, Player

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• In fact, Capitalism has a vested interest in creating new wants and making people unhappy until they acquire the next good.

  Philip Kotler

  Creating, People, Unhappy

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• The danger of having the Constitution twisted and misconstrued to support vested interests and prejudices must be guarded against if American democracy is to maintain a progressive character.

  Helen Keller

  Character, Support, Democracy

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• All the vested interests and people who profit by war will - with the journals they control - resolutely oppose any reduction of armaments.

  Randal Cremer

  War, People, Armament

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