"Statesman are suspected of plotting against mankind, rather than consulting their interests, and are esteemed more crafty than learned."
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"Indeed, the interests of the oppressors lie in 'changing the consciousness of the oppressed, not the situation which oppresses them."
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"Compound interest is proof of gods existence."
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"No one's fate is of any interest to you except your own."
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"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."
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"Learn to leave things. If you don't have an interest in something, you don't need even to transcend it!"
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"The Press, which is mostly controlled by vested interests, has an excessive influence on public opinion."
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"Ordinary life does not interest me."
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"Worry is interest paid before it's due."
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"Trust is for lovers. In politics there are only converging interests."
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"You don't have to transcend something that you have no interest in... it may come but it finds no food."
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"I am supporting David Cameron purely out of cynical self-interest."
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"The photos that interest me most, I can't say why I took them. I think my gift is that I still work with a certain amount of unconsciousness."
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"I like to work with the same people when I can, and you want to get people with the same interests that you have, and the same aesthetic."
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"When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated."
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"The public has more interest in the punishment of an injury than he who receives it."
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"A philistine is a full-grown person whose interests are of a material and commonplace nature, and whose mentality is formed of the stock ideas and conventional ideals of his or her group and time."
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"Most people are too stupid to act in their own interest"
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"Men often act knowingly against their interest."
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"All failures are so because they lack social interest."
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