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“There are only two forces that unite men - fear and interest”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“Will springs from the two elements of moral sense and self interest”
Abraham Lincoln
“It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.”
Henry James
“We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.”
Fydor Dostoevsky
“"Reports that say that something hasn't happened are always interesting to me, because as we know, there are known knowns; there are things we know we know. We also know there are known unknowns; that is to say we know there are some things we do no know. But there are also unknown unknowns -- the ones we don't know we don't know”
Donald Rumsfeld
“Decorate your home. It gives the illusion that your life is more interesting than it really is.”
Charles M. Schulz
“Whatever we treasure for ourselves separates us from others; our possessions are our limitations.”
Rabindranath Tagore
“Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.”
Chris Evert
“I am interested in the notion that people can become so obsessed by their world that they lose sense and awareness of how they appear to other people. They're so earnest about it. But that's true of so many things.”
Christopher Guest
“If you would be interesting, be interested, if you would be pleased, be pleasing, if you would be loved, be lovable, if you would be helped, be helpful.”
William Arthur Ward