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“What is essential here is the presence of the spirit of dialogue, which is in short, the ability to hold many points of view in suspension, along with a primary interest in the creation of common meaning.”

Spirit Interest Ability Views Common Creation Essentials Point Of View Dialogue Primaries Suspension

Author:David

“The only way to escape misrepresentation is never to commit oneself to any critical judgement that makes an impact - that is, never to say anything. I still, however think that the best way to promote profitable discussion is to be as clear as possible with oneself about what one sees and judges, to try and establish the essential discriminations in the given field of interest, and to state them as clearly as one can (for disagreement, if necessary).”

“The trouble is that privacy is at once essential to, and in tension with, both freedom and security. A cabinet minister who keeps his mistress in satin sheets at the French taxpayer's expense cannot justly object when the press exposes his misuse of public funds. Our freedom to scrutinise the conduct of public figures trumps that minister's claim to privacy. The question is: where and how do we draw the line between a genuine public interest and that which is merely what interests the public?”

“The world economy is in a nosedive, and understanding what I call "depression economics" - the weird world you get into when even a zero interest rate isn't low enough, and a messed-up financial system is dragging down the real economy - is essential if we're going to avoid the worst.”

Ifs World Real Enough Understanding Interest Economy Worst Essentials Lows Economics Rate Financial Zero Messed Up Interest Rate World Economy Financial System

Author:Paul Krugman

“My objective is that before the end of the millennium Europe should have a true federation. The Commission should become a political executive which can define essential common interests... responsible before the European Parliament and before the nation-states represented how you will, by the European Council or by a second chamber of national parliaments.”

Should Ends States Political Nations Interest Common Essentials Europe Should Have Responsible Objectives Executives Parliament Council Chamber Millennium Common Interests Federation

Author:Jacques Delors

“The last point for consideration is the supposed disposition of the people to interfere with the rights of property. So essential does it appear to me, to the cause of good government, that the rights of property should be held sacred, that I would agree to deprive those of the elective franchise against whom it could justly be alleged that they considered it their interest to invade them.”

People Should Doe Wisdom Government Lasts Politics Causes Interest Economy Rights Essentials Agree Sacred Property Liberalism Consideration Interfere Disposition

Book:The Works of David Ricardo ...

Source: The Works of David Ricardo ...

“One answer to why public interest in men's tennis has been on the wane in recent years is an essential and unpretty thugishness about the power-baseline style that's become dominant on the tour. Watch Agassi closely sometime...he's amazingly absent of finesse, with movements that look more like a heavy-metal musician's than an athlete's...what a top PBer really resembles is film of the old Soviet Union putting down a rebellion. It's awesome, but brutally so, with a grinding, faceless quality about its power that renders that power curiously dull and empty.”

“Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after.”

States Interest Emotional Essentials

Author:Max Weiss

“Instead of an aristocracy of wealth, of more harm and danger than benefit to society, to make an opening for the aristocracy of virtue and talent, which nature has wisely provided for the direction of the interests of society and scattered with equal hand through all its conditions, was deemed essential to a well-ordered republic.”

Wells Hands Interest Wealth Virtue Conditions Talent Danger Equal Essentials Benefits Harm Opening Republic Aristocracy

Book:Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, from the Papers of Thomas Jefferson

“The State may justify a limitation on religious liberty by showing it is essential to accomplish an overriding governmental interest.”

May States Christian Interest Religious Liberty Essentials Accomplish Limitation Justify Religious Liberty

Author:Warren E. Burger

“At the heart of the First Amendment is the recognition of the fundamental importance of the free flow of ideas and opinions on matters of public interest and concern. The freedom to speak one's mind is not only an aspect of individual liberty - and thus a good unto itself - but also is essential to the common quest for truth and the vitality of society as a whole. We have therefore been particularly vigilant to ensure that individual expressions of ideas remain free from governmentally imposed sanctions.”

“I don't want to indulge myself in the luxury of writing beautiful paragraphs just for the sake of making beautiful writing. That doesn't interest me. I want everything to be essential.”

Want Writing Beautiful Interest Essentials Sake Luxury Indulge Paragraph Beautiful Writing

Author:Jonathan Lethem

“The Charkha is intended to realize the essential and living oneness of interest among India's myriads.”

Interest Realizing Essentials India Oneness

Book:Collected Works

Source: Collected Works

“It is essential for men of science to take an interest in the administration of their own affairs or else the professional civil servant will step in - and then the Lord help you.”

Men Helping Interest Lord Steps Essentials Affair Administration Servant Civil Servants

Author:Ernest Rutherford

“The visual and literary arts are of perennial interest to me, and these art forms have become more and more a part of my life; they have become companions of sorts. I cannot imagine my day to day experiences without the presence of these art forms. They're absolutely essential.”

Art Form Interest Imagine Essentials Visuals Companion Day To Day Literary Art

Author:Michael Hersch

“What difference does it make how much there is laid away in a man's safe or in his barns, how many head of stock he grazes or how much capital he puts out at interest, if he is always after what is another's and only counts what he has yet to get, never what he has already. You ask what is the proper limit to a person's wealth? First, having what is essential, and second, having what is enough.”

Ifs Men Firsts Persons Doe Enough Asks Interest Differences Wealth Safe Limits Essentials Barns

Author:Seneca the Younger

“The essential task of Canadian statesmanship is to discover the terms on which as many as possible of the significant interest groups of our country can be induced to work together in common policy.”

Country Together Term Interest Common Groups Policy Essentials Tasks Significant Our Country Working Together Statesmanship Interest Groups

Author:Frank Underhill

“They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.”

World Long Causes Interest Middle Security Essentials Areas Roots Affair Terror Oil East Islamic Middle East Involvement Arab World Dialectics Root Cause

Author:Edward Said

“For interests that are vital to the U.S. - that is, essential for our survival and wellbeing - the U.S. should be prepared to use military force - including unilaterally, if necessary.”

Ifs Should Use Force Interest Military Essentials Survival Prepared Including Be Prepared Wellbeing Military Force

Author:Graham T. Allison

“There has to be a reform within the government that is tangible, that we can actually measure and that we have confidence is going to provide some of the differences that I think are essential to our troops to be able to carry out their mission and to the longer- term interests of our country.”

Thinking Country Government Able Term Interest Differences Essentials Missions Our Country Reform Troops Tangible Have Confidence Our Troops

Author:Rahm Emanuel

“When I was a Senator from New York, I represented and worked with so many talented principled people who made their living in finance. But even thought I represented them and did all I could to make sure they continued to prosper, I called for closing the carried interest loophole and addressing skyrocketing CEO pay. I also was calling in '06, '07 for doing something about the mortgage crisis, because I saw every day from Wall Street literally to main streets across New York how a well-functioning financial system is essential.”

“[Roots of terrorism] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.”

World Long Interest Middle Security Essentials Areas Roots Affair Terrorism Oil East Islamic Middle East Involvement Arab World Dialectics

Author:Edward Said

“The whole privatisation of health and education, of natural resources and essential infrastructure - all of this is so twisted and so antithetical to anything that would place the interests of human beings or the environment at the center of what ought to be a government concern - should stop. The amassing of unfettered wealth of individuals and corporations should stop. The inheritance of rich people's wealth by their children should stop. The expropriators should have their wealth expropriated and redistributed.”

“If egotism means a terrific interest in one's self, egotism is absolutely essential to efficient living.”

Ifs Mean Self Interest Ego Essentials Efficient Terrific Egotism Aquariums

Book:How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

Source: How to Live on 24 Hours a Day: with The Human Machine

“I have lived too long to cherish many illusions about the essential high-mindedness of men when brought into stark confrontation with the issue of control over their security, and their property interests.”

Men Long Interest Issues Security Essentials Illusion Property Cherish Confrontation Starks

Author:Haile Selassie

“It's important, according to me, to train in small doses so as to not lose the joy of playing chess. I personally think too many coaching and training classes may take away a child's interest in the game itself. The essential thing to do is practise often and, in case of a doubt, to consult a trainer.”

Thinking May Children Important Joy Games Interest Loses Class Cases Doubt Essentials Training Train Chess Things To Do Coaching Dose Trainers Practise Playing Chess

Author:Viswanathan Anand

“What care I if it be "wild and improbable" and "lacking in literary art"? I refuse to be any longer hampered by such canons of criticism. The one essential thing I demand of a book is that it should interest me. If it does, I forgive it every other fault.”

Ifs Should Doe Art Book Care Interest Demand Essentials Criticism Forgiving Faults Refuse Lacking Improbable Canon Literary Art

Author:Lucy Maud Montgomery

“He had two lives: one, open, seen and known by all who cared to know, full of relative truth and of relative falsehood, exactly like the lives of his friends and acquaintances; and another life running its course in secret. And through some strange, perhaps accidental, conjunction of circumstances, everything that was essential, of interest and of value to him, everything in which he was sincere and did not deceive himself, everything that made the kernel of his life, was hidden from other people.”

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Anton Chekhov (Illustrated)

“A free people ought not only to be armed, but disciplined; to which end a uniform and well-digested plan is requisite; and their safety and interest require that they should promote such manufactories as tend to render them independent of others for essential, particularly military, supplies.”

Source: The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses, Messages, and Other Papers, Official and Private, Selected and Published from the Original Manuscripts; with a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations

“The critical element in meditation practice is beginning again. Everyone loses focus at times, everyone loses interest at times, and everyone gets distracted over and over again. What is essential, and also incredibly transforming, is realizing that we have the ability to begin again, without blaming or judging ourselves, without thinking we have failed, without losing heart, we can, and need to, constantly be beginning again.”

“I'm noticing an exciting trend around the country: a resurgence of interest in Christian apologetics (the defense of the faith). This is a reaction to the current attacks on the essentials of Christianity that are coming from militant atheists, radical professors, and Internet gadflies.”

Country Christian Interest Christianity Internet Essentials Exciting Atheist Currents Defense Reactions Radical Trends Professors Noticing Militant Apologetic Resurgence Gadflies

Author:Lee Strobel

“Taxation is not a method by which the community corporately provides itself with essential services, but a fund to be divided between different interests with political claims upon the state.”

Different States Political Interest Community Liberty Essentials Claims Method Fund Divided Taxation

Author:Neville Chamberlain

“Half the interest of a garden is the constant exercise of the imagination.”

Interest Imagination Half Exercise Essentials Garden Constant Gardening Gardener Horticulture

Author:Alice Morse Earle