"I tend to follow a scattershot approach to reading a lot of very diverse subjects interest me, and I'm quite happy to read stuff on any of them."
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"I will advocate for Kentucky's interests."
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"To have acted otherwise ... would have been the betrayal of the interests of the United States."
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"When we control business in the public interest we are also bound to encourage it in the public interest or it will be a bad thing for everybody and worst of all for those on whose behalf the control is nominally exercised."
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"Interest is the invention of Satan."
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"Skating has always been a major area of interest to me."
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"Public borrowing is costly these days, true, but interest rates on municipal bonds are still considerably lower than those borne by corporate debt."
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"Never was so much false arithmetic employed on any subject, as that which has been employed to persuade nations that it is in their interest to go to war."
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"Honesty and interest are as intimately connected in the public as in the private code of morality."
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"The internet was supposed to homogenize everyone by connecting us all. Instead what it's allowed is silos of interest."
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"To cast in it with Hyde was to die a thousand interests and aspirations."
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"I did not have a very literary background. I came to poetry from the sciences and mathematics, and also through an interest in Japanese and Chinese poetry in translation."
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"It doesn't stop. It really doesn't stop. It's the way I live every single day. I don't do anything else. I have no other interest other than music. At all."
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"I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith."
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"The only transformation that interests me is a total transformation - however minute"
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"Business and the state have a common interest; not an adversarial interest."
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"In art, interest must be centred on the principal theme."
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"You have to have an almost boundless reservoir of energy and interest to enter politics because quite often it's thankless and fruitless and you can't accomplish much."
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"God and the afterlife and all that is certainly a subject that's interested me, and I think it interests me more the older that I get."
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"I'm always suspicious of disinterested interest."
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