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"The idea that 'the public interest' supersedes private interests and rights can have but one meaning that the interests and rights of some individuals take precedence over the interests and rights of others." »Ayn Rand
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"At every step of the way, George W. Bush has put the narrow interests of the few ahead of the interests of most Americans." »John Kerry, speech in New York, August 24, 2004
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"Relationships of trust depend on our willingness to look not only to our own interests, but also the interests of others." »Peter Farquharson
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"The death-knell of the republic had rung as soon as the active power became lodged in the hands of those who sought, not to do justice to all citizens, rich and poor alike, but to stand for one special class and for its interests as opposed to the interests of others." »Theodore Roosevelt
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"The community stagnates without the impulse of the individual. The impulse dies away without the sympathy of the community." »William James
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"Violence or the threat of violence must never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the community, almost by definition, ceases to be a university. It is for this reason that from time immemorial expulsion has been the primary instrument of university discipline." »Richard Milhous Nixon
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"If you always do what interests you, at least one person is pleased." »Katharine Hepburn
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"The Soul is the voice of the body's interests." »George Santayana
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"What really interests me is whether God had any choice in the creation of the world." »Albert Einstein
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"A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights." »Napoleon Bonaparte
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"Hobbies cost money but interests are free." »George Carlin, George Carlin: You Are All Diseased
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"One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests." »John Stuart Mill
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"A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment." »Willis Player
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"The corporation has evolved to serve the interests of whoever controls it, at the expense of whoever does not." »William Dugger
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"Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles." »Ambrose Bierce
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"A community is like a ship, everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm." »Henrik Ibsen
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"What people say behind your back is your standing in the community." »Edgar Watson Howe
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"A city is a large community where people are lonesome together." »Herbert V. Prochnow
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"Before he sets out, the traveler must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel." »George Santayana
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"A large volume of adventures may be grasped within this little span of life, by him who interests his heart in everything." »Laurence Sterne
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"The best political community is formed by citizens of the middle class." »Aristotle
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"Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it." »Marian Wright Edelman
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"By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community." »Oscar Wilde
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"The secret of happiness is this: Let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather that hostile." »Bertrand Russell
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"A thing is right if it tends to preserve the stability, integrity, and beauty of the biotic community. It is wrong if it tends otherwise." »Aldo Leopold
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"Marriage: the state or condition of a community consisting of a master, a mistress, and two slaves, making in all, two." »Ambrose Bierce
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"There is so much to be said in favor of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated it keeps us in touch with ignorance of the community." »Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde
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"The conscientious objector is a revoultionary. On deciding to disobey the law he sacrifices his personal interests to the most important cause of working for the betterment of society." »Albert Einstein
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"America is not only big and rich, it is mysterious and its capacity for the humorous or ironical concealment of its interests matches that of the legendary inscrutable Chinese." »David Riesman
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"Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the community." »Andrew Carnegie
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