"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."

John Buchanan Robinson, American Politician

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"The egoist is fooled by no ideals: he discards them or uses them, as may suit his own interest."

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"To say that only those businesses affected with a public interest may be regulated is but another way of stating that all those businesses which may be regulated are affected with a public interest."

Harlan Stone, American Lawyer

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"I think most organizations have an interest in key recovery, at least with respect to stored data."

Dorothy Denning, American Public Servant

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"When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke."

Brian P. Cleary, American Author

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"It's in our best interest to put some of the old rules aside and create new ones and follow the consumer - what the consumer wants and where the consumer wants to go."

Robert Iger, American Businessman

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"The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest."

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, French Writer

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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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"Ethical and questions of philosophy interest me a great deal."

Robert Sheckley, American Author

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Deyth Banger, American Blogger

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

Agatha Christie, English Writer

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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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"Large sums were paid for the use of money, because the available amount of gold and silver was far less than was needed to carry on the commercial transactions of the times."

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"There is no word more generally misinterpreted than the word egoism, in its modern sense."

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"In this way, the charge that the bank makes for the use of its notes - the interest - is a continual and universal tax upon all the members of the community."

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"When not only gold but all commodities are available for the redemption of the paper currency, its volume is limited only by the value of all the wealth of the country, and it can never become insecure up to this limit."

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"Capital, however capital may be defined, would practically cease to exist as an income producing fund, for the simple reason that if money, wherewith to buy capital, could be obtained for one-half of one per cent, capital itself could command no higher price."

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"In brief, egoism in its modern interpretation, is the antithesis, not of altruism, but of idealism."

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"Paper currency has hitherto been regarded with suspicion, as insecure."

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"The business of a bank is to lend money; which amounts, nowadays, to lending credit."

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"But the egoist has no ideals, for the knowledge that his ideals are only his ideals, frees him from their domination. He acts for his own interest, not for the interest of ideals."

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