#interests

What interests me is what you might call vernacular writing, writing that connects you to a place. ↗

— Calvin Trillin

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In dealing with the China problem, the British and American side, which had particularly strong interests in China, should have based its judgments about the origins of the problem on direct observation of the actual circumstances at the time. ↗

— Hideki Tojo

#actual #american #based #british #china

When school children start paying union dues, that 's when I'll start representing the interests of school children. ↗

— Albert Shanker

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A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests. ↗

— Niccolo Machiavelli

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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased. ↗

— Katharine Hepburn

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Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does. I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask. 'Science,' he says vaguely. ↗

— Emma Thompson

#cholesterol #disparate-interests #husbands #lack-of-interest #married-couples

I think the International Criminal Court could be a threat to American security interests, because the prosecutor of the court has enormous discretion in going after war crimes. And the way the Statute of Rome is written, responsibility for war crimes can be taken all the way up the chain of command. ↗

— John Bolton

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People are so docile right now. It is almost as if good government means when the politicians lie to us for our own good, for the public good, and bad government is when politicians lie for their own selfish interests. ↗

— James Bovard

#bad #bad government #docile #good #good government

Let us return, however, to the League of Nations. To create an organization which is in a position to protect peace in this world of conflicting interests and egotistic wills is a frighteningly difficult task. ↗

— Hjalmar Branting

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Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

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