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“"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
“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
“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
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in you”
Pericles
“One can give a really unbiased opinion only about things that do not interest one”
Oscar Wilde
“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 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
“You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.”
Maurice Sendak
“If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.”
Katharine Hepburn
