Interest Quotes - Page 38

• Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

  Sue Kelly

  Country, Law, Income

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• Facebook itself has an interest in having great content so that its users keep coming back.

  George Takei

  Coming Back, Users

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• Aside from mastery in the fine arts, success in learning anything is the result of genuine interest and amount of energy dedicated to it.

  Kató Lomb

  Art, Energy, Mastery

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• I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.

  Patricia Ireland

  Florida, Issues, African American

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• Those that regularly come into contact with people having diverse interests and viewpoints are more likely to come up with innovative ideas.

  Steven Johnson

  Ideas, People, Viewpoints

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• The fear of Hell, or aiming to be blest, Savors too much of private interest. This moved not Moses, nor the zealous Paul, Who for their friends abandoned soul and all.

  Edmund Waller

  Soul, Zealous, Too Much

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• To my mind, the most important aspect of the Nobel Awards is that they bring home to the masses of the peoples of all nations, a realization of their common interests. They carry to those who have no direct contact with science the international spirit.

  Irving Langmuir

  Home, Awards, Mind

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• I did get a very fine education, and not just in science. It took some pressure on the part of my elders to convince me that I really should take an interest in humanities.

  Joshua Lederberg

  Humanity, Pressure, Should

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• It's proper that people have friends, friendships without self-interest. Without friends, life is too lonely.

  Pramoedya Ananta Toer

  Lonely, Self, People

  "Awakenings".

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• Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents.

  Alister E. McGrath

  Spiritual, Teacher, Example

  Alister E. McGrath (2012). “Reformation Thought: An Introduction”, p.25, John Wiley & Sons

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• When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Real, Mean, Kids

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• Bottom line: if you show a genuine interest in learning about how others became successful, you can open up a world of opportunities.

  Armstrong Williams

  Successful, Opportunity, World

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• Seán Manchester is, unsurprisingly, very well read in both classical and more recent sources on vampires and vampirism, and cites them with great authority while taking the reader through a brief tour of vampire lore and mythology. This is a book I'd recommend to anybody with an interest in the author or vampires. The parts which deal with vampires are obviously based on years of substantial research and personal experience.

  Joe McNally

  Book, Years, Vampire

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• A Tong can perhaps be defined as a mutual benefit society for people with a common interest which is illegal or dangerously marginal - hence, the necessary secrecy.

  Hakim Bey

  Mutual Benefit, People, Benefits

  Hakim Bey (1994). “Immediatism”, p.13, AK Press

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• It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

  Carolyn Wells

  Book, Library, Ifs

  Carolyn Wells (1937). “The Rest of My Life”

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• Learning how to improvise really awakened my interest in music.

  Carter Burwell

  Awakened

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• A public man has no right to let his actions be determined by particular interests. He does the same thing as a judge who accepts a bribe. Like a judge he must consider what is right, not what is advantageous to a party or class.

  Lord Acton

  Party, Men, Class

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• I know that I personally have felt quite happy because I've done what I wanted to do. I pursued my interests and have thus managed to combine my business with lots of fun. I guess my only advice is to do what you enjoy, and try to do your best with it.

  Jim Henson

  Fun, Advice, Trying

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• When I was a kid, I never saw a puppet show. I never played with puppets or had any interest in them.

  Jim Henson

  Kids, Puppets, Saws

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• Choice, not chance, determines your destiny. It's up to you to decide what you are worth, how you matter, and how you make meaning in the world. No one else has your gifts--your set of talents, ideas, interests. You are an original. A masterpiece.

  Regina Brett

  Destiny, Ideas, Choices

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• Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

  Eric Hoffer

  Type, Reduction, Categories

  Eric Hoffer (1963). “The Ordeal of Change”

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• As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to
  have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs,
  business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger
  community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as
  possible and as many activities as possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Community, Requirements, Affair

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.191, Penguin Books India

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• Those who have little interest in spirituality shouldn’t think that human inner values don’t apply to you. The inner peace of an alert and calm mind are the source of real happiness and good health. Our human intelligence tells us which of our emotions are positive and helpful and which are damaging and to be restrained or avoided.

  Dalai Lama

  Inspirational, Happiness, Real

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• When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Years, Courses

  Fyodor Dostoevsky (2012). “The Best Short Stories of Fyodor Dostoevsky”, p.111, Modern Library

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• In general, higher education does not know how to speak for its interests. It offers a stance that is defensive, cowardly and likely to be ineffective.

  Stanley Fish

  Doe, Speak, Higher Education

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