"The cost of leadership is self-interest."
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"It's amazing what happens when you put your interests out into the universe and make it known what you want."
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"Man serves the interests of no creature except himself."
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"He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great."
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"It's in my interest, in ours perhaps, or maybe the interests of the greater good, for me to smoke a joint, and calm down."
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"Talk in terms of the other person's interests."
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"Most women writers don't interest me because they're hung up with being a woman, they're hung up with being Jewish, they're hung up with being somebody or other. Rather than just going, just spurting, just creating."
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"self-interest usually brings injustice with it."
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"Intense interest in any subject is indispensable if you're really going to excel in it."
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"Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?"
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"Self-interest, or rather self-love, or egoism, has been more plausibly substituted as the basis of morality."
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"(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds."
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"It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing."
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"The future interests me - I'm going to spend the rest of my life there."
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"The interests of all Cypriots would be advanced with a bizonal bicommunal federation."
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"The investor's primary interest lies in acquiring and holding suitable securities at suitable prices."
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"You can do what you want, but saving love doesn't bring any interest."
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"I cannot even pretend to feel as much interest in boys as in girls."
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"You cannot imagine at all how much you interest God; He is interested in you as if there were no one else on earth."
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"We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest."
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