#rests

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

#bosses #defense #group #interest #interests

I think the Iraq War is not particularly tailored to American interests. ↗

— Peter Brimelow

#american interests #i #i think #interests #iraq

It always interests me how obsessed people are about age. ↗

— Amanda Burton

#age #always #how #interests #me

I write about what interests me. It's very dangerous when you try to satisfy an audience. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#audience #dangerous #i #i write #interests

The tyrant always talks as if he's preserving the best interests of his people when he actually acts to undermine them. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#actually #always #best #best interests #his

The precise point at which a tax deduction becomes a 'loophole' or a tax incentive becomes a 'subsidy for special interests' is one of the great mysteries of politics. ↗

— John Sununu

#deduction #great #incentive #interests #loophole

Science rests on reason and experiment, and can meet an opponent with calmness; but a belief is always sensitive. ↗

— James Anthony Froude

#belief #calmness #experiment #meet #opponent

If you are a leader or someone who works for the interest of a community, first make sure that you understand the interest of the people who make up that community. In this way, you will have a good chance of minimizing, perhaps, avoiding the us versus them mentality. ↗

— Duop Chak Wuol

#game-theory #interests #leadership #political-philosophy #leadership

Before the commercial ventures, Linux tended to be rather hard to set up, because most of the developers were motivated mainly by their own interests. ↗

— Linus Torvalds

#before #commercial #developers #hard #interests

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