#rests

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself. ↗

— Johann Georg Hamann

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I'm more influenced by my own interests than anyone else's. Writers have to entertain themselves, or they can't entertain anyone else. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

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Foreign aid is neither a failure nor a panacea. It is, instead, an important tool of American policy that can serve the interests of the United States and the world if wisely administered. ↗

— Lee H. Hamilton

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When liberty is mentioned, we must always be careful to observe whether it is not really the assertion of private interests which is thereby designated. ↗

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests. ↗

— Philip Warren Anderson

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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions. ↗

— Harry Browne

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It is impossible for capitalists and laborers to have common interests. ↗

— Samuel Gompers

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Our humanity rests upon a series of learned behaviors, woven together into patterns that are infinitely fragile and never directly inherited. ↗

— Margaret Mead

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Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. ↗

— Remy de Gourmont

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Think of the magic of that foot, comparatively small, upon which your whole weight rests. It's a miracle, and the dance is a celebration of that miracle. ↗

— Martha Graham

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