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«All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape.»
«By forgetting the past and by throwing myself into other interests, I forget to worry»
Author: Jack Dempsey | About: Past | Keywords: forgetting, interests, throwing
«Don't listen to those who say, you taking too big a chance. Michelangelo would have painted the Sistine floor, and it would surely be rubbed out by today. Most important, don't listen when the little voice of fear inside you rears its ugly head and says. they all smarter than you out there. They're more talented, they're taller, blonder, prettier, luckier, and they have connections. I firmly believe that if you follow a path that interests you, not to the exclusion of love, sensitivity, and cooperation with others, but with the strength of conviction that you can move others by your own efforts, and do not make success or failure the criteria by which you live, the chances are you'll be a person worthy of your own respects.»
«A liberal is a person whose interests aren't at stake at the moment»
Author: Willis Player | About: Liberals, Risk, Socialism | Keywords: interests, liberal, stake, staked
«COMPROMISE, n. Such an adjustment of conflicting interests as gives each adversary the satisfaction of thinking he has got what he ought not to have, and is deprived of nothing except what was justly his due.»
«?There are three forces, the only three forces capable of conquering and enslaving forever the conscience of these weak rebels in the interests of their own happiness. They are: the miracle, the mystery and authority.?»
«All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?»
«A wise ruler ought never to keep faith when by doing so it would be against his interests.»
«As in private life one differentiates between what a man thinks and says of himself and what he really is and does, so in historical struggles one must still more distinguish the language and the imaginary aspirations of parties from their real organism and their real interests, their conception of themselves from their reality.»
«A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights.»