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• Moskin has brought together with care and lucidity an inside history of American diplomacy written through the eyes of the many diplomats who conceived and carried it out over 225 years. You experience the challenges, successes, and foibles. Over time, the Foreign Service evolved into a professional cadre serving the public and presidents, often at the peril of their lives. Anyone interested in understanding our diplomacy, what makes it tick, and how it strives to serve the public interest should read this masterful history.

  Thomas R. Pickering

  Eye, Years, Understanding

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• I can only think of one experience which might exceed in interest a few hours spent under water, and that would be a journey to Mars.

  William Beebe

  Journey, Thinking, Water

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• We have a responsibility to hold both sides accountable to the public interest, but that doesn't mean we reflexively and artificially hold both sides 'equally' accountable when the facts don't warrant that.

  Mark Halperin

  Mean, Responsibility, Facts

  "The Fairness Doctrine". www.washingtonpost.com. October 12, 2004.

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• Even as I'm shoveling up my hooter, I realize the sad truth. Coke bores me, It bores us all. We're jaded cunts, in a scene we hate, a city we hate, pretending that we're at the center of the universe, trashing ourselves with crap drugs to stave off the feeling that real life is happening somewhere else, aware that all we're doing is feeding that paranoia and disenchantment, yet somehow we're too apathetic to stop. Cause, sadly, there's nothing else of interest to stop for.

  Irvine Welsh

  Hate, Real, Somewhere Else

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• It's stunning to me what kind of an impact even one person can have if they have the right passion, perspective and are able to align the interest of a great team.

  Steve Case

  Team, Passion, Impact

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• The power of divorce can be given only to those who feel the inconveniences of marriage, and who are sensible of the moment when it is for their interest to make them cease.

  Baron de Montesquieu

  Divorce, Moments, Given

  Charles de Secondat, Baron de Montesquieu (2015). “The Spirit of Laws”, p.606, Library of Alexandria

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• Tastes are created by the business interests. How else can you explain the popularity of Al Hirt?

  Charles Mingus

  Als, Taste, Jazz

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• The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is - second only to American political campaigns - the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.

  Larry Laudan

  Ideas, Perspective, Political

  Larry Laudan (2012). “Science and Relativism: Some Key Controversies in the Philosophy of Science”, p.10, University of Chicago Press

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• The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to a uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government. From the protection of different and unequal faculties of acquiring property, the possession of different degrees and kinds of property immediately results; and from the influence of these on the sentiments and views of the respective proprietors, ensues a division of the society into different interests and parties.

  James Madison

  Party, Men, Rights

  The Federalist no. 10 (1788)

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• Men don't want anything they get too easy. But on the other hand, men lose interest quickly.

  Tennessee Williams

  Men, Hands, Want

  Tennessee Williams (2004). “A Streetcar Named Desire”, p.94, New Directions Publishing

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• Recipe for success: Be polite, prepare yourself for whatever you are asked to do, keep yourself tidy, be cheerful, don't be envious, be honest with yourself so you will be honest with others, be helpful, interest yourself in your job, don't pity yourself, be quick to praise, be loyal to your friends, avoid prejudices, be independent, interest yourself in politics, and read the newspapers.

  Bernard Baruch

  Success, Jobs, Independent

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• The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right.

  Ezra Stiles

  Exercise, Liberty, Unalienable Rights

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• I read for interest and enjoyment, and when I cease to enjoy it I stop.

  Tom Stoppard

  Enjoy, Enjoyment, Cease

  Tom Stoppard, Paul Delaney (1994). “Tom Stoppard in Conversation”, p.179, University of Michigan Press

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• A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some training, perhaps, to accomplish this economy, but when once used to it, you will find there is more satisfaction in rational saving than in irrational spending.

  P. T. Barnum

  Training, Dollars, Goes On

  P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.10, Applewood Books

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• Nature has her proper interest; and he will know
  what it is, who believes and feels, that every Thing
  has a Life of its own, and that we are all one Life.

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  Inspirational, Life, Believe

  Samuel Taylor Coleridge, May Byron, William Hazlitt, James Gillman (2015). “Samuel Taylor Coleridge: The Man Behind The Lyrics (Illustrated Edition): Autobiographical Works (Memoirs, Complete Letters, Literary Introspection, Thoughts and Notes on Poetry); Including Extensive Biographies and Studies on S. T. Coleridge”, p.958, e-artnow

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• Sanctification costs to the extent of "an intense narrowing of all our interests on earth and an immense broadening of all our interests in God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Temptation, Cost, Earth

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• How can a world be good in which Money is the moving power, and Self-interest the guiding star?

  H. Rider Haggard

  Stars, Moving, Self

  H. Rider Haggard (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of H. Rider Haggard (Illustrated)”, p.1688, Delphi Classics

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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

  Giving Up, Character, Thinking

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• I've been perfectly happily married for 25 years, and have a nice life. Inane things don't interest me.

  Geezer Butler

  Nice, Years, Married

  "It's Just Honest Music". Interview with David Marchese, www.popmatters.com. July 13, 2005.

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• My own curiosity and interest are insatiable.

  Emma Lazarus

  Curiosity, Insatiable, My Own

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• I've always liked trees. And then, growing up, I took an interest in ecology, hedges being destroyed, the landscape being turned into prairies.

  Clive Anderson

  Growing Up, Tree, Landscape

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• I remember only what interests me.

  Georgette Heyer

  Remember

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• I had no interest in fashion when I was younger. I was such a tomboy. I loved soccer, as you call it, or sports in general. The first time I was a bridesmaid, to my auntie, I refused to go down the aisle without my football shorts underneath my dress.

  Cara Delevingne

  Soccer, Sports, Football

  Interview with David Colman, www.interviewmagazine.com. March 18, 2013.

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• Rather than comparing [war] to art we could more accurately compare it to commerce, which is also a conflict of human interests and activities; and it is still closer to politics, which in turn may be considered as a kind of commerce on a larger scale.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Art, War, May

  Carl von Clausewitz, Michael Howard, Peter Paret (1989). “On War”, p.149, Princeton University Press

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• The essential thing is to arouse such an interest that it engages the child’s whole personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Personality, Essentials

  Maria Montessori, Gerald Lee Gutek (2004). “The Montessori Method: The Origins of an Educational Innovation : Including an Abridged and Annotated Edition of Maria Montessori's The Montessori Method”, p.58, Rowman & Littlefield

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