Interest quotes
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"I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning."
"As soon as children find something that interests them they lose their instability and learn to concentrate."
"Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest."
"God keeps the entire Universe in order, and still finds time to take a personal interest in you and me."
"Everything interests me, but nothing holds me."
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"We have allowed the interests of capital to outweigh the interests of human beings and our Earth."
"I have a cause higher and nobler than my own, a cause to which all private interests and concerns must be subordinated."
"If civilization is to survive, it must live on the interest, not the capital, of nature."
"Good and evil both increase at compound interest."
"when my office would require me to either violate my conscience or violate the national interest, then I would resign the office; and I hope any conscientious public servant would do the same."
"Change happens when you understand what you want to change so deeply that there is no reason to do anything but act in your own best interest."
"For me the only things of interests are those linked to the heart"
"I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit."
"The interest I have to believe a thing is no proof that such a thing exists."
"We cannot achieve greatness unless we lose all interest in being great."
"The future is of greater interest to me than the past, since that is where I intend to spend the rest of my life."
"I don't have hobbies; hobbies cost money. Interests are quite free."
"The unfolding of the bare human soul...that is what interests me."
"In that sense, what a great way to live, if you could always do things that interest you, and do them with people who interest you."
"But some, besides allegiance to their original error, possess I know not what fanciful interest in remaining hostile not so much toward the things in question as toward their discoverer."
"Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned."
"Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them."
"Compound interest is proof of gods existence."
"No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own."
"No one can become really educated without having pursued some study in which he took no interest- for it is a part of education to learn to interest ourselves in subjects for which we have no aptitude."
