Quotes with agro-interest

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  • Arnold Bennett If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.
    Arnold Bennett
    British novelist (1867 - 1931)
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  • Barry Sternlicht If I had high-ticker 10 percent financing, which would probably be the market rate, I would have to dump stuff. The interest payments would be killing me.
    Barry Sternlicht
    billionaire and the (1960 - )
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  • Aaron Eckhart If it helps me in the way that if this movie is successful, I get to make more films, great, and the more films that I make and the more interest that I'm allowed to cover, the better for me and the better, hopefully, for the people who like to watch me.
    Aaron Eckhart
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Oscar Wilde If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Benjamin Cardozo If you ask how he is to know when one interest outweighs another, I can only answer that he must get his knowledge just as the legislator gets it, from experience and study and reflection; in brief, from life itself.
    Benjamin Cardozo
    American lawyer and jurist (1870 - 1938)
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  • Caitlin Flanagan If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.
    Caitlin Flanagan
    American writer
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  • Napoleon Hill If your imagination leads you to understand how quickly people grant your requests when those requests appeal to their self-interest, you can have practically anything you go after.
    Napoleon Hill
    American self-help author (1883 - 1970)
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  • Barack Obama In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them.
    Barack Obama
    American politician (1961 - )
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  • Aristotle In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
    Aristotle
    Greek philosopher (384 - 322)
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  • Michel Eyquem De Montaigne In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection, otherwise you only make so many asses laden with books.
    Michel Eyquem De Montaigne
    French essayist and philosopher (1533 - 1592)
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  • Billy Crudup Interest in certain themes doesn't mandate a personal stake or personal experience of those themes. I've killed people in plays, but no one asks me what it's like to kill people.
    Billy Crudup
    American actor (1968 - )
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  • Jonathan Swift Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth, and judgment of age.
    Jonathan Swift
    English writer (1667 - 1745)
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  • Francis Beaumont Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
    Francis Beaumont
    English writer and poet (1584 - 1616)
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  • Henry Ward Beecher Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth.
    Henry Ward Beecher
    American Congregationalist clergyman, social reformer, and speaker (1813 - 1887)
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  • Plato Is it not also true that no physician, in so far as he is a physician, considers or enjoins what is for the physician's interest, but that all seek the good of their patients? For we have agreed that a physician strictly so called, is a ruler of bodies, and not a maker of money, have we not?
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • Beau Willimon Is self-interest a bad thing? We want our leaders to be pure and good, but at the same time we want them to be effective, and to be effective you often have to be ruthless and not bound by ideology or the same morals that we pretend to hold ourselves to.
    Beau Willimon
    American playwright and screenwriter (1977 - )
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  • Henry James It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
    Henry James
    American author (1843 - 1916)
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  • Archibald Alexander It is commonly said that men are forward to believe whatever is connected with their own interest. This in common cases is true; but it is also true, that when some very great and unexpected good news is brought to us, we find it very difficult to credit it.
    Archibald Alexander
    American Presbyterian theologian and professor (1772 - 1851)
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  • Barbara Boxer It is in Saudi Arabia's best interest to allow women to fully participate in its society, and this includes the right to vote and run for office.
    Barbara Boxer
    American politician (1940 - )
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  • Adam Smith It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our necessities but of their advantages.
    Adam Smith
    Scottish Economist (1723 - 1790)
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