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Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via ...

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Elizabeth GaskellMy Lady Ludlow and Other Stories

The ruling passion of the age is to convert wealth into debt in order toderive a permanent future in...

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None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it w...

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I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:First, the notion th...

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I started studying law, but this I could stand just for one semester. I couldn't stand more. Then I ...

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The rate of interest acts as a link between income-value and capital-value.

But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about...

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I've always had an interest in design, and I have always loved creating things.

No, I'm not interested in politics. I have zero interest. I have interest in hope and people.

I was always a sports nut but I've lost interest now in whether one bunch of mercenaries in north Lo...

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He who receives money in trust to administer for the benefit of its owner, and uses it either for hi...

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I have no interest in making a work that doesn't elicit a feeling.

Women's Lib? Oh, I'm afraid it doesn't interest me one bit. I've been so liberated it hurts.

His quest was a wolf, and it starved. - Gansey

If technique is of no interest to a writer, I doubt that the writer is an artist.

Tom's whole being applauded this idea. It was deep, and dark, and awful; the hour, the circumstances...

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Mark TwainThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer

But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and ...

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Man is encased, as though in a shell, in the particular ranking of the simplest values and value-qua...

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I have an armchair interest in gardening, but I don't like to get my knees dirty. I don't have a gar...

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When a citizen gives his suffrage to a man of known immorality he abuses his trust; he sacrifices no...

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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compass...

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I'm always amazed at anyone's interest in what I have to say.

The government must do all it can to help reduce interest rates for business.

If a problem is clearly stated, it has no further interest to the physicist.

What I think is remarkable about my mum and dad is they had no interest in films, really. None.

I see a resurgence of interest in poetry. I am less optimistic about the prospects for the arts when...

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We wish to discuss a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid. (D.N.A.). This structure ha...

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Child-rearing is my main interest now. I'm a hands-on father.

I think the big mistake in schools is trying to teach children anything, and by using fear as the ba...

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Destiny is a lie. Destiny is justification for atrocity. It is the means by which murderers armour t...

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There is no correct way to write a novel, or rather, there is only one, and that one way is to make ...

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I do not find theism any more credible than materialism as a comprehensive world view. My interest i...

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Thomas NagelMind and Cosmos: Why the Materialist Neo-Darwinian Conception of Nature Is Almost Certainly False

There is a mutual interest between Israel and the United States of America. It is more than friendsh...

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At any time, and under any circumstances of human interest, is it not strange to see how little real...

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It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, b...

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Once a partner has begun to lose interest, there is apparently little the other can do to arrest the...

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To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way ...

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But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-...

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What we colloquially call 'feeling bored' is just the mind, acting out of a self-preserving reflex, ...

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Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the tim...

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I have a love interest in every one of my films: a gun.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the ...

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The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions t...

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I hadn’t been a nerd, mind you. I’d just been the type of guy who spent a lot of time by himself, fo...

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Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing intere...

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Respect isn't enough. You've got to have a proprietary interest.

By becoming interested in the cause, we are less likely to dislike the effect.

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Dale CarnegieHow to Win Friends and Influence People

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone.

The dream, alone, is of interest. What is life, without a dream?