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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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Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration. ↗

— John White Geary

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How can you claim to have a passionate interest in something, and then make no effort to properly understand it? ↗

— Simon Cheshire

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My husband and I were very in love, and I had no reason to suspect that his interests lay anywhere else. ↗

— Marion Zimmer Bradley

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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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The system that enables the most people to earn the most success is free enterprise, by matching up people's skills, interests, and abilities. In contrast, redistribution simply spreads money around. Even worse, it attenuates the ability to earn success by perverting economic incentives. ↗

— Arthur C. Brooks

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What interests me is seeing a problem and doing something about it, not all of the stuff around it. ↗

— Lauren Bush

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When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war. ↗

— Howard Zinn

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I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest. ↗

— George W. Bush

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As societies grow decadent, the language grows decadent, too. Words are used to disguise, not to illuminate, action: you liberate a city by destroying it. Words are to confuse, so that at election time people will solemnly vote against their own interests. ↗

— Gore Vidal

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