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I'm not interested in age. People who tell me their age are silly. You're as old as you feel.
Age and Aging
Elizabeth Arden

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In revolutions the occasions may be trifling but great interest are at stake.
Revolutions and Revolutionaries
Aristotle

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Interest makes some people blind, and others quick-sighted.
Interest
Francis Beaumont

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There is much to be said for failure. It is more interesting than success.
Failure
Sir Max Beerbohm

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It is sometimes necessary to lie damnably in the interests of the nation.
Lies and Lying
Hilaire Belloc

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Opinions are a private matter. The public has an interest only in judgments.
Public Opinion
Walter Benjamin

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I have never regarded politics as the arena of morals. It is the arena of interest.
Morality
Aneurin Bevan

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An egotist is a person interested in himself than in me!
Egotism
Ambrose Bierce

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Egotist. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than me.
Egotism
Ambrose Bierce

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Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest
Fear
Napoleon Bonaparte

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There are only two forces that unite men -- fear and interest.
Fear
Napoleon Bonaparte

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There are two levers for moving men -- interest and fear.
Motivation
Napoleon Bonaparte

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There are persons who, when they cease to shock us, cease to interest us.
Scandal
Francis H. Bradley

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What is interesting about self-analysis is that it leads nowhere -- it is an art form in itself.
Introspection
Anita Brookner

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Man was lost if he went to a usurer, for the interest ran faster than a tiger upon him.
Debt
Pearl S. Buck

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To appreciate nonsense requires a serious interest in life.
Sense of Humor
(Frank) Gelett Burgess

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It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.
Business
Edmund Burke

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Friendship without self-interest is one of the rare and beautiful things of life.
Friends and Friendship
James F. Byrnes

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To write is to become disinterested. There is a certain renunciation in art.
Arts and Artists
Albert Camus

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Life is very interesting if you make mistakes.
Life and Living
Georges Carpentier

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There are no uninteresting things, there are only uninterested people.
Interest
Gilbert K. Chesterton

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A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students.
Colleges and Universities
John Ciardi

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The causes of events are ever more interesting than the events themselves.
History and Historians
Marcus T. Cicero

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Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
Marriage
Irwin Cory

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Parents are not quite interested injustice, they are interested in quiet.
Parents and Parenting
Bill Cosby

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun