Quotes 241 till 260 of 337.
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The English public, as a mass, takes no interest in a work of art until it is told that the work in question is immoral.
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The essence of all immorality and sin is making ourselves the center around which we subordinate all interest.
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The excess of our youth are checks written against our age and they are payable with interest thirty years later.
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The fact is that the diversity in this political class serves the same interest as diversity in any arena, which is it stirs the competitive pot.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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The Federal Reserve needs to provide small businesses in America with the same low-interest loans it gave to foreign banks.
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The Federal Reserve's job is to do the right thing, to take the long-run interest of the economy to heart, and that sometimes means being unpopular. But we have to do the right thing.
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The foolish and wicked practice of profane cursing and swearing is a vice so mean and low that every person of sense and character detests and despises it.
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The gears of poverty, ignorance, hopelessness and low self-esteem interact to create a kind of perpetual failure machine that grinds down dreams from generation to generation. We all bear the cost of keeping it running. Illiteracy is its linchpin.
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The great difficulty is first to win a reputation; the next to keep it while you live; and the next to preserve it after you die, when affection and interest are over, and nothing but sterling excellence can preserve your name. Never suffer youth to be an excuse for inadequacy, nor age and fame to be an excuse for indolence.
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The greatest bulwark against an overreaching government, as tyrants know, is a religious population. That is because religious people form communities of interest adverse to government control of their lives; religious communities rely on their families and each other rather than an overarching government utilizing force.
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The house a woman creates is a Utopia. She can't help it - can't help trying to interest her nearest and dearest not in happiness itself but in the search for it.
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The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.
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The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.
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The method of rule of the tyrant and the oligarch is quite simply to clobber, coerce, or overawe all or most other groups in the interest of their own.
In Defence Of Politics Ch. 1, The Nature Of Political Rule, p. 18 -
The Miss America contest is the most perfectly rendered theater in our culture, for it so perfectly captures what we yearn for: a low-class ritual, a polished restatement of vulgarity, that wants to open the door to high-class respectability by way of plain middle-class anxiety and ambition.
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The money doesn't interest me. I'm not enjoying MotoGP, and I'm retiring.
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The NBA and NHL have different agendas: The NBA is much more protective of its players and its brand; the NHL has less to lose, and it's in their best interest to generate buzz any way they can.
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The new world economic order is not an exercise in philanthropy, but in enlightened self-interest for everyone concerned.
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The parent is low, who having children, truly feels bored.
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