"When a thing ceases to be a subject of controversy, it ceases to be a subject of interest."

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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

Henry Ward Beecher, American Clergyman

Interest, Money, Work, Time

"An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members."

Friedrich List, German Economist

Interest, May, Nation, Public

"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."

Earl Scruggs, American Musician

Interest, Road, Want

"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

F. H. Bradley, British Philosopher

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"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."

Leland Stanford, American Educator

Interest, Labor, Promises, Thoughtful

"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

Gene Tierney, American Actress

Interest, Man, Romantic

"I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about."

Katie Couric, American Journalist

Interest, May, Trying

"My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that."

Nina Blackwood, American Celebrity

Interest, Passion, Reading

"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."

Daniel Goleman, American Author

Interest, Years

"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

Lucian Freud, British Artist

Interest,

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"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

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"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

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"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."

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"No young man ever thinks he shall die."

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"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."

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"Interest works night and day in fair weather and in foul. It gnaws at a man's substance with invisible teeth."

"An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members."

"I know she would want me to still do what I'm doing, because she kept me going a lot of times when I'd almost lose interest in getting out on the road."

"There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us."

"Every thoughtful and kind-hearted person must regard with interest any device or plan which promises to enable at least the more intelligent, enterprising, and determined part of those who are not capitalists to cease to labor for hire."

"I had no romantic interest in Gable. I considered him an older man."

"I know there's a great deal of speculation, and while I appreciate the interest, kind of, my contract ends in May and I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do. I'm fortunate to have a couple of opportunities to think long and hard about."

"My reading is always about musical biographies. I have an innate interest and passion for that."

"But there has also been a notable increase in recent years of these applications by a much wider slice of psychotherapists - far greater interest than ever before."

"And, since the model he faithfully copies is not going to be hung up next to the picture, since the picture is going to be there on its own, it is of no interest whether it is an accurate copy of the model."

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"Rules and models destroy genius and art."

"A wise traveler never despises his own country."

"No truly great person ever thought themselves so."

"Do not keep on with a mockery of friendship after the substance is gone - but part, while you can part friends. Bury the carcass of friendship: it is not worth embalming."

"That which is not, shall never be; that which is, shall never cease to be. To the wise, these truths are self-evident."

"One shining quality lends a lustre to another, or hides some glaring defect."

"Almost every sect of Christianity is a perversion of its essence, to accommodate it to the prejudices of the world."

"The smallest pain in our little finger gives us more concern than the destruction of millions of our fellow beings."

"No young man ever thinks he shall die."

"Dr. Johnson was a lazy learned man who liked to think and talk better than to read or write; who, however, wrote much and well, but too often by rote."