#rests

Imagination is always the fabric of social life and the dynamic of history. The influence of real needs and compulsions, of real interests and materials, is indirect because the crowd is never conscious of it. ↗

— Simone Weil

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And I've always worked on the principle that if it interests me enough to write about it, then it must interest a lot of other people. ↗

— Morris West

#always #enough #i #interest #interests

General Howe turned out some German wild boars and sows in his forests, to the great terror of the neighbourhood; and, at one time, a wild bull or buffalo: but the country rose upon them and destroyed them. ↗

— Gilbert White

#bull #country #destroyed #forests #general

Talk about national interests: When we went in with Operation Iraqi Freedom, some of our allies, Turkey, for example, would not let us through. How much trouble did that cause us, because we were not able to go into Iraq through Turkey? ↗

— Roger Wicker

#about #allies #because #cause #did

What I would tell young players is that as you get older, the best thing you can do is try to have other interests and have opportunities. ↗

— Ricky Williams

#get #i #interests #older #opportunities

We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

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The historical circumstance of interest is that the tropical rain forests have persisted over broad parts of the continents since their origins as stronghold of the flowering plants 150 million years ago. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#broad #circumstance #continents #flowering #forests

It's like someone cutting up a loved one in front of you, all the time insisting they've got your best interests at heart. They're very devious nowadays. ↗

— Malcolm Wilson

#best interests #cutting #devious #front #got

The whole conviction of my life now rests upon the belief that loneliness, far from being a rare and curious phenomenon, peculiar to myself and to a few other solitary men, is the central and inevitable fact of human existence. ↗

— Tom Wolfe

#belief #central #conviction #curious #existence

I think that all countries that participate in multilateral institutions see the institutions as a way of advancing what they view as their national interests and they see in many cases multi-lateral institution as the best way to do that. ↗

— Paul Wolfowitz

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