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“Someone's got to be interested in how I feel, just because I'm here and I'm real.”
Ani Difranco
“I would have the studies elective. Scholarship is to be created not by compulsion, but by awakening a pure interest in knowledge. The wise instructor accomplishes this by opening to his pupils precisely the attractions the study has for himself. The marking is a system for schools, not for the college; for boys, not for men; and it is an ungracious work to put on a professor.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success comes only later”
Confucius
“Moral principle is a looser bond than pecuniary interest”
Abraham Lincoln
“Marge, you being a cop makes you the man! Which makes me the woman - and I have no interest in that, besides occasionally wearing the underwear, which as we discussed, is strictly a comfort thing.”
Dan Castellaneta
“If I'm alone too long I think too much, and I'm not interested in doing that. That won't lead anywhere good, I'm sure. If I'm busy I tend to stay out of trouble. An idle mind is the devil's playground.”
Lisa Marie Presley
“Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest”
Napoleon Bonaparte
“It is hard to interest those who have everything in those who have nothing.”
Helen Keller
“Marriage enlarges the scene of our happiness and of our miseries. A marriage of love is pleasant, of interest, easy, and where both meet, happy. A happy marriage has in it all the pleasures of friendship, all the enjoyments of sense and reason, and,”
Joseph Addison
“If property had simply pleasures, we could stand it; but its duties make it unbearable. In the interest of the rich we must get rid of it.”
Oscar Wilde
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