"The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests."
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"How people themselves perceive what they are doing is not a question that interests me."
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"Academics are mostly professionals, involved in their work and other concerns of their own, with no particular interest in the workings of the ideological system."
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"Democracy is always harmful to elite interests. Almost by definition."
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"My interest in this pack of failures betrays my character."
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"I don't believe in princerple, But oh I du in interest."
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"If some band sucks, you're going to have to find out about it for yourself, because I don't have the interest in issuing warnings."
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"I never had any interest in being involved with the Boy Scouts."
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"For the world is only governed by self-interest."
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"When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests?"
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"My interest in my work dies a sudden and violent death when the work is done."
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"I first had no interest in figuration whatsoever."
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"Time will generally lessen the interest of every attachment not within the daily circle."
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"I like when things are hard; I'm very competitive. If something seems difficult or impossible, it interests me."
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"When you lose interest in anything, you also lose the memory for it."
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"We must recognize that every nation determines its policies in terms of its own interests."
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"I will undertake to prove that the present corn laws have been detrimental to the public, without being beneficial to the agricultural interest."
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"One of my interests is to understand what constitutes the vibe of a place and what makes one concert different from another."
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"It is clear that whatever language of democracy Obama and his administration use is very tactically deployed, and has as its main aim the extension of US power and interests."
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"What's happening in Russia is devoid of autobiographical interest for me. Maybe it's egocentric. Whatever it is, feel free to use it."
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