"The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example."
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"The advertisement is one of the most interesting and difficult of modern literary forms."
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"The spot of ground on which a man has stood is forever interesting to him."
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"Contrast of emotions is definitely something interesting that you like to do as an actor."
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"Many a scientist has patiently designed experiments for the purpose of substantiating his belief that animal operations are motivated by no purposes. He has perhaps spent his spare time in writing articles to prove that human beings are as other animals so that 'purpose' is a category irrelevant for the explanation of their bodily activities, his own activities included. Scientists animated by the purpose of proving that they are purposeless constitute an interesting subject for study."
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"Some philosophers fail to distinguish propositions from judgements; ... But in the real world it is more important that a proposition be interesting than that it be true. The importance of truth is that it adds to interest."
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"[In many circumstances,] the most important thing about a proposition is not that it be true, but that it be interesting."
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"One's life should be sufficiently interesting to furnish entertainment in the record."
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"What's interesting about songs where the writer is genuinely in love with words is that it's easy to read the lyrics like a poem."
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"We make images to "honor what is greater and more interesting than we are.""
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"I just do the best I can and write something interesting, to tell stories in an interesting way and move forward from there."
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"If somebody crafts an interesting tweet that’ll lead me to their blog, I’m going to their blog."
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"[George] Orwell's essays. It's got it all. Great writing, a worldview that I find interesting and useful, and most of it timelessly true."
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"I don't mind violence, but it's quite an interesting thing for people to deal with. I don't know many people that like fighting. I certainly don't, myself. But it's always interesting to work on a shows where there's so much violence, as a part of the world."
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"When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with the emotional complexities of life and people, it's a really interesting development."
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"And once again Mr. Sherlock Holmes is free to devote his life to examining those interesting little problems which the complexity of human life so pletifuly presents."
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"Marriage is overdone. As long as there are people, people are going to find it interesting."
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"I unfortunately don't have a stage name, I don't have a celebrity that I can hide behind, so every time I show my ID at an airport person or get carded at a bar, it's always interesting."
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"I had dinner recently with a guy who bragged that he had only gotten four hours of sleep that night. I didn't say it, but I thought to myself 'If you had gotten five, this dinner would have been a lot more interesting'"
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"We're proud to offer a wide variety of bloggers from a wide variety of fields. Some are well-known, some are unknown - but all have something interesting to say. And we cover everything from politics, to entertainment, to media, to business, to style, to green, to our upcoming launch of a technology page - it's why we call HuffPost "The Internet Newspaper.""
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