"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."

Interest, Living

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"The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee."

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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

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"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

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"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

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"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

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

Gene Tierney, American Actress

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"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

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"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

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"But be that as it may, I think it is more respectful to you that I should speak to you upon and do my best to interest you in the subject which has occupied me, and in which I am myself most interested."

Arthur Cayley, British Mathematician

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"I specialize in murders of quiet, domestic interest."

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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"We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end."

War

"But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for."

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"But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind."

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"Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale."

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"We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer."

Courage

"As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface."

Life

"The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary."

Adventure

"The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment."

Animals

"But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid."

Peace

"We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past."

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