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• It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.

  Adam Smith

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• Many say an art dealer running a museum is a ‘conflict of interest.’ But maybe the art world has lived an artificial or unintentional lie all of these years when it comes to conflicts of interest.

  Jerry Saltz

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• All my life, I will continue obstinately to write about love, solitude and passion among the kind of people I know. The rest don’t interest me.

  Francoise Sagan

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• Mother’s interest in contemporary American artists emerged during the 1920s.

  David Ricardo

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• It was because of my great interest in the West, and my belief that its development would be assisted by the interest I could awaken in others, that I decided to bring the West to the East through the medium of the Wild West Show.

  Buffalo Bill

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• Men often act knowingly against their interest.

  David Hume

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• It was clear that the special interest groups in California really wanted the Chinese to be shut out of the country, because that was where the racial tension was the greatest.

  Iris Shun Ru Chang

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• I don’t like being recognised, I have no interest in being famous at all, I just do what I do. If I could be like Captain Kirk and beam myself up and then beam myself down, I would!

  Bruce Dickinson

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• My being gay was something of not great interest to me.

  Maurice Sendak

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• What interests me, and has always interested me, has been modernism.

  Peter Gay

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• You don’t get real reform by pandering to every special interest. With cap and trade we wound up with a bill that didn’t accomplish much, was enormously complicated and expensive.

  Brian Baird

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• Congress has a legitimate interest in making sure that a practice that appears to reduce disease and healthcare costs remains available to parents. And, nothing in my bill prohibits statewide law ensuring that male circumcision occurs in a hygienic manner.

  Brad Sherman

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• We sometimes encounter people, even perfect strangers, who begin to interest us at first sight, somehow suddenly, all at once, before a word has been spoken.

  Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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• An individual, in promoting his own interest, may injure the public interest; a nation, in promoting the general welfare, may check the interest of a part of its members.

  Friedrich List

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• I’d always had an interest in physiotherapy and psychology.

  Bob Paisley

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• I was strongly encouraged by a science teacher who took an interest in me and presented me with a key to the laboratory to allow me to work whenever I wanted.

  Frederick Reines

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• Show interest in all people, not just those from whom you want something. Making people feel important and good about themselves is just the right thing to do.

  Bo Bennett

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• And when we draw lines in the sand with regard to certain basic things that are vital to our interest and to the interest of democracy and our friends around the world, we have to be willing to back that up.

  Freddie Dalton Thompson

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• I met my wife Anne who was a sociology student, and her influence together with activities associated with the student movement of the time opened up my interests amongst other things into the theatre, art, music, politics and philosophy.

  Paul Nurse

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• I really don’t take any interest at all in contemporary comedy.

  Paul Merton

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