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Tag Name "Interest" (4348)

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Tradionally, parents made decisions for a child, because presumably they are looking out for his or her best interests. But if they are blinded, instead, by the best interests of another one of their children, the system breaks down.
Jodi Picoult
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Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest.
George Washington
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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellowmen to have an interest in your enterprise.
Henry David Thoreau
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I sometimes think I should like to give up business entirely. The care and worriment attending large business interests are very great, but besides that fact the manner in which motives are impugned and characters assailed is most unpleasant
Jay Gould
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Politics is the art of making your selfish desires seem like the national interest.
Thomas Sowell
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How we organize our world reflects not only the world but also our interests, our passions, our needs, our dreams.
David Weinberger
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Democrats believe we must create jobs, not protect the special interests build the economy from the middle out, not the top down.
Nancy Pelosi
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It is no good to think that other people are out to serve our interests.
Ivy Compton-Burnett
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The political satirist usually votes against their own interests, but the bottom line is that it doesn't really matter.
Lizz Winstead
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Joy and grief decide character. What exalts prosperity? what imbitters grief? what leaves us indifferent? what interests us? As the interest of man, so his God - as his God, so he.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
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If you are a minority or an interest group, the Democrats will hold the debate at your house. Whereas Republicans take a slightly different approach: they have a big tent - you're just not allowed in it.
Jon Stewart
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The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.
Paul Kagame
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Except for the woman, nothing interests the eye of the American man more than the automobile, or seems so important to him as an object of esthetic appreciation.
Alfred H. Barr, Jr.
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Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.
Hans Urs von Balthasar
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A woman whom we need and who makes us suffer elicits from us a whole gamut of feelings far more profound and vital than a man of genius who interests us.
Marcel Proust
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The overdressed traveler betrays more interest in being seen than in seeing, while the true traveler knows that the novel world about her serves as the most appropriate accessory.
Gregory Maguire
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Be careful whom you associate with. It is human to imitate the habits of those with whom we interact. We inadvertently adopt their interests, their opinions, their values, and their habit of interpreting events.
Epictetus
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Her interest in natural history was confined to observation of the crows' feet gathering around her eyes.
Nicolas Bentley
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A photograph is a meeting place where the interests of the photographer, the photographed, the viewer and those who are using the photograph are often contradictory. These contradictions both hide and increase the natural ambiguity of the photographic image.
John Berger
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The principle of real leadership ignored, the immortal objects of society forgotten, practical conservatism degenerated into mere laudation of private enterprise, economic policy almost wholly surrendered to special interests.
Russell Kirk
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After everyone has had a chance to bluster, posture, and pontificate, we are left with one basic question: under any foreseeable circumstance, would it be in our national interest to default on our debt? The answer is unequivocally no.
John Sununu
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There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history.
Penelope Lively
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The nation which indulges towards another an habitual hatred, or an habitual fondness, is in some degree a slave. It is a slave to its animosity or to its affection, either of which is sufficient to lead it astray from its duty and its interest.
George Washington
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Intuition always has our best interest at heart.
Christina Baldwin
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