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Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men. ↗

— Isaac Barrow

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Why something in the public interest such as television news can be fought over, like a chain of hamburger stands, eludes me. ↗

— Jimmy Breslin

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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

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There is already huge public interest in stage musicals. ↗

— Tim Rice

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It's a rarity when someone takes a political risk in Washington today in the public interest. ↗

— Arlen Specter

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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

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They may then be willing to cast principled votes based on an educated understanding of the public interest in the face of polls suggesting that the public itself may have quite a different understanding of where its interest lies. ↗

— James L. Buckley

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Public interest in most of the Middle East was slight at that time; the Arab-Israeli conflict was all that people were interested in and that was not my specialty. ↗

— Juan Cole

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One of the most powerful defences the media can offer for controversial actions is, of course, public interest. ↗

— Rowan D. Williams

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In the long run, the public interest depends on private virtue. ↗

— James Q. Wilson

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