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• With calm, knowledgeable precision, Daniel Ziblatt wades into the adjacent swamps of federalism and nineteenth-century European history, emerging with hands full of gems. Beneath the tangle of great statesmen and national culture he discovers conflicting regional political interests, sharp regional variations in political capacity, fearful defenses against excessive democracy, coercive conquest of weak states, and unintended consequences galore. Read, think, and learn.

  Charles Tilly

  Thinking, Hands, Political

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• While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say they desire nor, especially in the case of children, with their best interests.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Children, People, Desire

  "The Good Society". Book by Robert Neelly Bellah, Richard Madsen, Steven M. Tipton, William M. Sullivan and Ann Swidler (Chapter 1), 1991.

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• The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives.

  Arthur C. Brooks

  Skills, People, Incentives

  Interview with Kathryn Jean Lopez, www.nationalreview.com. June 23, 2010.

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• When it comes to Father's Day, I will remember my dad for both being there to nurture me and also for the times he gave me on my own to cultivate my own interests and to nurture my own spirit.

  Jennifer Grant

  Dad, Father, Spirit

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I had then and still retain an interest in science for its own sake and as a metaphor for our current lives.

  Peter Hammill

  Sake, Metaphor, Currents

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• In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.

  George H. Mead

  Self, Wartime, Primal

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• Warfare is an utterly stupid method of settling differences of interest between different nations.

  George H. Mead

  Stupid, Differences, Different

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• Great interests demand great safeguards.

  Thomas Francis Meagher

  Demand

  Thomas Francis Meagher (1853). “Speeches on the Legislative Independence of Ireland”, p.83

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• The best reason for exposing oneself to foreign ways is to generate a sense of vitality and awareness - an interest in life which can come only when one lives through the shock of contrast and difference.

  Edward T. Hall

  Differences, Vitality, Interest In Life

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• I stopped and gazed on the little dull man who was being paid to be a teacher of teachers. I turned and walked to the door, slammed it closed with a bang, and broken glass crashed to the floor. There was uproar behind me in the class, which did not interest me at all.

  Burl Ives

  Teacher, Men, Class

  Burl Ives (2017). “Wayfaring Stranger”, p.120, Pickle Partners Publishing

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• I dare say that a majority of the American people think that having a fair hearing on an issue of importance in our relations with Mexico is extremely important to our national interest, as well as theirs.

  William Weld

  Thinking, Issues, People

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• The great proliferation of museums in the nineteenth century was a product of the marriage of the exhibition as a way of awakening intelligent interest in the visitor with the growth of collections that was associated with empire and middle-class affluence. Attendance at museums was as much associated with moral improvement as with explanation of the human or natural world.

  Richard Fortey

  Intelligent, Class, Museums

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• Doubtless, the life of an Irregular is hard; but the interests of the Greater Number require that it shall be hard.

  Edwin A. Abbott

  Numbers, Greater, Hard

  Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren, Thomas F. Banchoff (2010). “Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary”, p.72, Cambridge University Press

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• Complete nudity in itself is not erotic. It becomes so only when preceeded by or contrasted to a state of dress. In this limited context then, all clothes become somewhat immoral, if we define immorality as inciting sexual interest. Habitual nakedness may indeed be capable of elevating man to a higher mental plane

  Lucy Irvine

  Men, Clothes, Erotic

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• Ideas are powerful things, requiring not a studious contemplation but an action, even if it is only an inner action. Their acquisition obligates each man in some way to change his life, even if it is only his inner life. They demand to be stood for. They dictate where a man must concentrate his vision. They determine his moral and intellectual priorities. They provide him with allies and make him enemies. In short, ideas impose an interest in their ultimate fate which goes far beyond the realm of the merely reasonable.

  Midge Decter

  Powerful, Fate, Men

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• There is no faith, however respectable, no interest, however legitimate, which must not accommodate itself to the progress of human knowledge and bend before truth.

  Paul Broca

  Progress, Respectable, Humans

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• Change really isn't as hard as we thought if we capture people's interest and give them enjoyable, worthwhile experiences.

  Michael Fullan

  People, Giving, Worthwhile

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• My own interest in basic aspects of electron transfer between metal complexes became active only after I came to the University of Chicago in 1946.

  Henry Taube

  Chicago, Aspect, Metals

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• Creating new people, by having babies, is so much a part of human life that it is rarely thought even to require a justification. Indeed, most people do not even think about whether they should or should not make a baby. They just make one. In other words, procreation is usually the consequence of sex rather than the result of a decision to bring people into existence. Those who do indeed decide to have a child might do so for any number of reasons, but among these reasons cannot be the interests of the potential child. One can never have a child for that child’s sake.

  David Benatar

  Life, Baby, Sex

  David Benatar (2008). “Better Never to Have Been: The Harm of Coming Into Existence”, p.2, Oxford University Press

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• Accountability is the essence of democracy. If people do not know what their government is doing, they cannot be truly self-governing. The national security state assumes the government secrets are too important to be shared, that only those in the know can see classified information, that only the president has all the facts, that we must simply trust that our rulers of acting in our interest.

  Garry Wills

  Government, Self, Essence

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• There is a wonderful feeling when you walk into your own exhibition. You see the work as a true extension of yourself. Win or lose, your interests have led you to an accumulation of your personal expression, signed lower right, 
  mounted to best advantage.

  Robert Genn

  Winning, Expression, Feelings

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.35, Studio Beckett Publications

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• The manner of Demoivre's death has a certain interest for psychologists. Shortly before it, he declared that it was necessary for him to sleep some ten minutes or a quarter of an hour longer each day than the preceding one: the day after he had thus reached a total of something over twenty-three hours he slept up to the limit of twenty-four hours, and then died in his sleep.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Death, Sleep, Science

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• After reading Edgar Allan Poe. Something the critics have not noticed: a new literary world pointing to the literature of the 20th Century. Scientific miracles, fables on the pattern A+ B, a clear-sighted, sickly literature. No more poetry but analytic fantasy. Something monomaniacal. Things playing a more important part than people; love giving away to deductions and other forms of ideas, style, subject and interest. The basis of the novel transferred from the heart to the head, from the passion to the idea, from the drama to the denouement.

  Jules de Goncourt

  Drama, Reading, Passion

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• Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Important, United States, Tools

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• A healthy and fully functioning society must allocate its resources among a variety of competing interests, all of which are more or less valid but none of which should take precedence over national security.

  Herman Kahn

  Healthy, Resources, Should

  Herman Kahn, Paul Dragoș Aligică, Kenneth R. Weinstein (2009). “The Essential Herman Kahn: In Defense of Thinking”, p.34, Lexington Books

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