#disinterest

Great passions may give us a quickened sense of life, ecstasy and sorrow of love, the various forms of enthusiastic activity, disinterested or otherwise, which comes naturally to many of us. ↗

— Walter Pater

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An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know the right and courage to do it, can preserve that public virtue without which popular government is a sham and a mockery. ↗

— Joseph Pulitzer

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I am very proud to come back, to speak on the disinterested effort we have made and I believe that, with all due respect, that the decisions we made, when we turned our final report over to President Johnson, will stand in history. ↗

— John Sherman Cooper

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Friendship is a disinterested commerce between equals; love, an abject intercourse between tyrants and slaves. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

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I was a disinterested student. ↗

— David Fincher

#i #student

The Dalai Lama said that he thinks mother's love is the best symbol for love and compassion, because it is totally disinterested. ↗

— Richard Gere

#best #compassion #dalai #dalai lama #disinterested

I'm hardly disinterested totally in my appearance. ↗

— Frank Langella

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I couldn't love a woman who inspired me to be totally disinterested. If I fell in love with a woman for an artistic reason, or from the point of view of my work, I think it would rob her of something. ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

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To be interested in the public good we must be disinterested, that is, not interested in goods in which our personal selves are wrapped up. ↗

— George H. Mead

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Books are standing counselors and preachers, always at hand, and always disinterested; having this advantage over oral instructors, that they are ready to repeat their lesson as often as we please. ↗

— Louis Nizer

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