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• It may be conceit, but I believe the subject will interest the public, and I am sure that the views are original.

  Charles Darwin

  Believe, Science, Views

  Charles Darwin, Francis Darwin (1958). “Autobiography and Selected Letters”, p.211, Courier Corporation

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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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• Every lecture should state one main point and repeat it over and over, like a theme with variations. An audience is like a herd of cows, moving slowly in the direction they are being driven towards. If we make one point, we have a good chance that the audience will take the right direction; if we make several points, then the cows will scatter all over the field. The audience will lose interest and everyone will go back to the thoughts they interrupted in order to come to our lecture.

  Gian-Carlo Rota

  Moving, Science, Order

  Gian-Carlo Rota (2008). “Indiscrete Thoughts”, p.196, Springer Science & Business Media

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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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• 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

  Motivational, Events, Opinion

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• The great bulk of the legal voters of the South were men who owned no slaves; their homes were generally in the hills and poor country; their facilities for educating their children, even up to the point of reading and writing, were very limited; their interest in the contest was very meagre--what there was, if they had been capable of seeing it, was with the North; they too needed emancipation.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Country, Children, Reading

  Ulysses S. Grant (2007). “Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant”, p.81, Cosimo, Inc.

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• I leave comparisons to history, claiming only that I have acted in every instance from a conscientious desire to do what was right, constitutional, within the law, and for the very best interests of the whole people. Failures have been errors of judgment, not of intent.

  Ulysses S. Grant

  Errors, Law, People

  Eighth State of the Union Address, en.wikisource.org. December 05, 1876.

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• The theory of interest was wrapped in utter obscurity, until Hume and Smith dispelled the vapor.

  Jean-Baptiste Say

  Obscurity, Vapor, Theory

  Jean Baptiste Say (1821). “A treatise on political economy; or, The production, distribution, and consumption of wealth. Tr. by C.R. Prinsep, with notes”, p.152

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• Each man must live as an end in himself and follow his own rational self-interest.

  Ayn Rand

  Men, Self, Ends

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• That is what I define as a novel: something that has a beginning, a middle and an end, with characters and a plot that sustain interest from the first sentence to the last. But that is not what I do at all.

  Guillermo Cabrera Infante

  Writing, Character, Lasts

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• Once we have surrendered our senses and nervous systems to the private manipulation of those who would try to benefit from taking a lease on our eyes and ears and nerves, we don't really have any rights left. Leasing our eyes and ears and nerves to commercial interests is like handing over the common speech to a private corporation, or like giving the earth's atmosphere to a company as a monopoly.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Eye, Rights, Giving

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• They charge us with anti-Semitism…The truth is, those hurling these charges harbor a 'passionate attachment' to a nation not our own that causes them to subordinate the interests of their own country and to act on an assumption that, somehow, what's good for Israel is good for America.

  Pat Buchanan

  Country, Israel, Attachment

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• Iraq is the central battleground in the war on terror. The terrorists certainly know what is at stake, which is why they are pulling out all the stops to derail our efforts there. They know that a free and democratic Iraq is a serious blow to their interests.

  Elizabeth Dole

  War, Blow, Iraq

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• Meditation practice isn’t about trying to throw ourselves away and become something better. It’s about befriending who we are already. The ground of practice is you or me or whoever we are right now, just as we are. That’s the ground, that’s what we study, that’s what we come to know with tremendous curiosity and interest.

  Pema Chodron

  Meditation Practice, Curiosity, Trying

  Pema Chodron (2001). “The Wisdom of No Escape: And the Path of Loving Kindness”, p.2, Shambhala Publications

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• Remind yourself, in whatever way is personally meaningful, that it is not in your best interest to reinforce thoughts and feelings of unworthiness. Even if you've already taken the bait and feel the familiar pull of self-denigration, marshal your intelligence, courage, and humor in order to turn the tide. Ask yourself: Do I want to strengthen what I'm feeling now? Do I want to cut myself off from my basic goodness? Remind yourself that your fundamental nature is unconditionally open and free.

  Pema Chodron

  Meaningful, Taken, Cutting

  Pema Chodron (2008). “The Pocket Pema Chodron”, p.46, Shambhala Publications

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• To begin to meditate is to look into our lives with interest in kindness and discover how to be wakeful and free.

  Jack Kornfield

  Kindness, Looks, Our Lives

  Jack Kornfield (2012). “Meditation for Beginners: Six Guided Meditations for Insight, Inner Clarity, and Cultivating a Compassionate Heart”, p.6, Sounds True

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• The art of not reading is a very important one. It consists in not taking an interest in whatever may be engaging the attention of the general public at any particular time. When some political or ecclesiastical pamphlet, or novel, or poem is making a great commotion, you should remember that he who writes for fools always finds a large public. A precondition for reading good books is not reading bad ones: for life is short.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Art, Book, Reading

  Arthur Schopenhauer (2016). “101 Facts of life”, p.23, Publishdrive

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• Most of our life is unimportant, filled with trivial things from morning till night. But when it is transformed by love it is of interest even to the angels.

  Dorothy Day

  Morning, Angel, Night

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• Either you look at the universe as a very poor creation out of which no one can make anything, or you look at your own life and your own part in the universe as infinitely rich, full of inexhaustible interest, opening out into the infinite further responsibilities for study and contemplation and interest and praise. Beyond all and in all is God.

  Thomas Merton

  Looks, Study, Infinite

  "Choosing to Love the World: On Contemplation".

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• To truly know the world, look deeply within your own being; to truly know yourself, take real interest in the world.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Real, Looks, World

  "Verses and Meditations". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1985.

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• I've had an interest in racing all my life, or longer really.

  Kevin Keegan

  Racing

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• If one meets a powerful person - Adolf Hitler, Joe Stalin or Bill Gates - ask them five questions: 'What power have you got? Where did you get it from? In whose interests do you exercise it? To whom are you accountable? And how can we get rid of you?' If you cannot get rid of the people who govern you, you do not live in a democratic system.

  Tony Benn

  Powerful, Exercise, People

  Members in the Commons Hansard Debates, publications.parliament.uk. March 22, 2001.

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• People in debt become hopeless and hopeless people don't vote. They always say that that everyone should vote but I think that if the poor in Britain or the United States turned out and voted for people that represented their interests there would be a real democratic revolution.

  Tony Benn

  Real, Thinking, People

  "Sicko". Documentary, Drama, 2007.

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• My interest in life comes from setting myself huge, apparently unachievable challenges and trying to rise above them.

  Richard Branson

  Entrepreneur, Challenges, Trying

  Richard Branson (1999). “Losing my virginity: how I've survived, had fun, and made a fortune doing business my way”, Crown Business

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