"The function of the censor is to censor. He has a professional interest in finding things to suppress."
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"You can write about anything, and if you write well enough, even the reader with no intrinsic interest in the subject will become involved."
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"I don't take a great deal of interest in party politics. Social politics interests me a great deal more."
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"I believe very strongly that in this world you have to have values and you have to stand up for your interests and if you don't do those things you're not going to get anywhere."
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"What interests me is to understand the nature of the modern."
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"The very essence of democracy is that every person represents all the varied interests which compose the nation."
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"It's so much unwanted interest in your privacy that you don't want to invite anymore."
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"Psychology is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so."
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"In all her intercourse with society, however, there was nothing that made her feel as if she belonged to it... She stood apart from mortal interests, yet close beside them, like a ghost that revisits the familiar fireside, and can no longer make itself seen or felt."
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"And so the danger for the housing industry is if we see interest rates rise."
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"Harmony, liberal intercourse with all nations, are recommended by policy, humanity, and interest."
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"Britain was set to repeat the boom-bust cycle that led to 15 per cent. interest rates for one whole year in the early 1990s."
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"You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can."
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"There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books"
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"The bane of Americans is overwork-and the ruin of any work is a divided interest. Concentrate-concentrate. One thing at a time."
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"No public interest is anything other or nobler than a massed accumulation of private interests."
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"We are so happy to advise others that occasionally we even do it in their interest."
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"Never try to time the bond market. Anyone who claims to know the future of interest rates is certifiable."
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"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."
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"We all appear as dunces when feigning an interest in things we care nothing about."
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