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19 quotesIt is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Lies and Lying
Hilaire Belloc
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Pleasure can be supported by an illusion; but happiness rests upon truth.
Illusion
Sebastien-Roch Nicolas De Chamfort
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The history of the past interests us only in so far as it illuminates the history of the present.
History and Historians
Ernest Dimnet
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Beauty rests on necessities.
Beauty
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The first farmer was the first man. All historic nobility rests on the possession and use of land.
Farming and Farmers
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased.
Enjoyment
Katharine Hepburn
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Men may be linked in friendship. Nations are linked only by interests.
Nations
Rolf Hochhuth
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Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.
Knowledge
Carl Jung
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It is ideas, not vested interests, which are dangerous for good or evil.
Ideas
John Maynard Keynes
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One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
Belief
John Stuart Mill
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Envy feeds on the living, after death it rests, then the honor of a man protects him.
Envy
Ovid
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Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.
Strength
Pythagoras
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
Familiarity
Antoine Rivarol
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The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.
Mystery
Arthur Schopenhauer
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No man will work for your interests unless they are his.
Selfishness
David Seabury
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
Health
George Bernard Shaw
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The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
Leaders and Leadership
Henri B. Stendhal
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Once an organization loses its spirit of pioneering and rests on its early work, its progress stops.
Progress
Thomas J. Watson
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The best part of married life is the fights. The rests is merely so.
Marriage
Thornton Wilder
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun