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“In retrospect, the past seems not one existence with a continuous flow of years and events that follow each other in logical sequence, but a life periodically dividing into entirely separate compartments. Change of surroundings, interests, pursuits, has made it seem actually more like different incarnations.”

Years Made Different Seems Past Interest Existence Events Reflection Flow Pursuit Made It Logical Surroundings Sequence Incarnation Retrospect Dividing

Book:The Fabric of Memory

Source: The Fabric of Memory

“Were there contacts over time between Iraq and al-Qaeda? Yes, there were efforts made to communicate. We found no evidence of collaboration in any effort to mount any kind of operation against the United States' interests.”

Kind Made States Found Interest United Effort United States Evidence Iraq Communicate Contact Operations Als Collaboration Al Qaeda

Author:Richard Ben-Veniste

“Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.”

Made Peace Interest

Author:William Cowper

“I have no interest in the printed word. I would continue to write if there were no writing and no print. I put my words down for a matter of memory. They are more made to be spoken than to be read.”

Ifs Writing Made Matter Interest Memories Print Printed Printed Word

Author:John Steinbeck

“My role as goodwill ambassador has made my work as a film star relatively dull. I can`t find anything that interests me enough to go back to work. I`m simply not excited about anything. I`m not excited about going to a film set.”

Made I Can Enough Film Stars Interest Roles Excited Dull Goodwill Ambassadors Back To Work Film Set Film Stars

Author:Angelina Jolie

“Almost all wars, perhaps all, are trade wars connected with some material interest. They are always disguised as sacred wars, made in the name of God, or civilization or progress. But all of them, or almost all of the wars, have been trade wars.”

Has Beens Made War Names Interest Progress Materials Civilization Sacred Trade Connected

Author:Eduardo Galeano

“And government (to define it de facto, or according to modern prudence) is an art whereby some man, or some few men, subject a city or a nation, and rule it according to his or their private interest; which, because the laws in such cases are made according to the interest of a man, or of some few families, may be said to be the empire of men, and not of laws.”

Men May Art Made Said Government Law Nations Interest Cities Cases Modern Subjects Empires Prudence

Book:Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

Source: Harrington: 'The Commonwealth of Oceana' and 'A System of Politics'

“Another writer asserts that the tyranny of man over woman has its roots, after all, in his nobler feelings; his love, his chivalry, and his desire to protect woman in the barbarous periods of pillage, lust, and war. But wherever the roots may be traced, the results at this hour are equally disastrous to woman. Her best interests and happiness do not seem to have been consulted in the arrangements made for her protection. She has been bought and sold, caressed and crucified at the will and pleasure of her master.”

Source: THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE - Complete 6 Volumes (Illustrated): Everything You Need to Know about the Biggest Victory of Women’s Rights and Equality in the United States – Written By the Greatest Social Activists, Abolitionists & Suffragists

“I suppose my interest in looking for life elsewhere in the universe really dates back to my teens. What teenager doesn't look up at the sky at night and think am I alone in the universe? Well most people get over it, but I never did and though I made a career more in physics and cosmology than astrobiology I've always had a soft spot for the subject of life because it does seem so mysterious.”

People Thinking Wells Looks Doe Made Seems Night Universe Interest Careers Sky Subjects Physics Spots Mysterious Teenager Look Up Over It Elsewhere Teens Get Over Cosmology

Author:Paul Davies

“Think of drawing as a way of talking about the things that interest you. Think of those wonderful documents, drawings made on scraps of paper by the lesser Dutch masters while they were wandering around market places and sitting in saloons.”

Thinking Way Made Interest Talking Wonderful Masters Paper Sitting Drawing Wander Documents Scrap Dutch Saloons Wandering Around Way Of Talking

Author:John French Sloan

“It is as his own mind comes into contact with others that truth will begin to acquire value in the child's eyes and will consequently become a moral demand that can be made upon him. As long as the child remains egocentric, truth as such will fail to interest him and he will see no harm in transposing facts in accordance with his desires.”

Mind Children Long Made Facts Eye Desire Values Interest Moral Failing Demand Remains Harm Contact Acquire Egocentric

Book:The Moral Judgement of the Child

Source: The Moral Judgement of the Child

“It is therefore, the interest of all, that every one, from birth, should be well educated, physically and mentally, that society may be improved in its character, - that everyone should be beneficially employed, physically and mentally, that the greatest amount of wealth may be created, and knowledge attained, - that everyone should be placed in the midst of those external circumstances that will produce the greatest number of pleasurable sensations, through the longest life, that man may be made truly intelligent, moral and happy, and be thus prepared to enter upon the coming Millennium.”

Men Should Wells May Made Character Interest Wealth Numbers Moral Produce Amount Birth Circumstances Intelligent Prepared Educated Midst Sensations Employed Millennium Well Educated

Author:Robert Owen

“Some paradox of our natures leads us, when once we have made our fellow men the objects of our enlightened interest, to go on to make them the objects of our pity , then of our wisdom , ultimately of our coercion.”

Men Made Interest Objects Goes On Fellows Pity Enlightened Paradox Fellow Man Coercion

Book:The Liberal Imagination

Source: The Liberal Imagination

“The essence of spirituality does not consist in a specialised or narrow interest in some imagined part of life, but in a certain enlightened attitude to all the various situations which obtain in life. It covers and includes the whole of life. All the material things of this world can be made subservient to the divine game, and when they are thus subordained they become auxiliary to the self-affirmation of the spirit.”

“It is admitted that a novel can hardly be made interesting or successful without love? It is necessary because the passion is one which interests or has interested all. Everyone feels it, has felt it, or expects to feel it.”

Feels Made Passion Felt Interest Interesting Novel Successful Without Love

Author:Anthony Trollope

“Uh... what can I say? Made money. Given a launch pad for a working life. Set a precedent I had no interest in following. Created expectations that I was not cut-out to match. Disappointed virtually all of my readers subsequently. But I like what I've done, and I stand by it all.”

Made Done Given Interest Cutting Reader Expectations Following Disappointed Precedent Pads Working Life

Author:Alex Garland

“All the real money in investment will have to be made as most of it has been in the past not out of buying and selling but out of owning and holding securities, receiving interests and dividends therein, and benefiting from their long-term increases in value. Hence stockholder's major energies and wisdom as investors should be directed toward assuring themselves of the best operating results from their corporations. This in turn means assuring themselves of fully honest and competent managements.”

“My main interest... is the love of truth, whether pleasant or not. Truth is self-sufficient, and there is nothing to which it can be subordinated without loss. When truth is made subservient to anything else, however great (say religion), it becomes impure and sordid.”

Made Self Interest Loss Truth Is Sufficient Pleasant Self Sufficient Subservient

Book:A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

Source: A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece

“I think the reality is that copyright law has for a very long time been a tiny little part of American jurisprudence, far removed from traditional First Amendment jurisprudence, and that made sense before the Internet. Now there is an unavoidable link between First Amendment interests and the scope of copyright law. The legal system is recognizing for the first time the extraordinary expanse of copyright regulation and its regulation of ordinary free-speech activities.”

“What I find most appalling is the Senate calls it a qualified blind trust when it's not blind. Since the Senate says it's OK, the Senate has made it a political question. It's up to the voter. But there's no doubt it's a conflict of interest.”

Made Political Interest Doubt Conflict Blind Made It No Doubt Voters Senate Blindness Qualified Conflict Of Interest Blind Trust

Author:Kathleen Clark

“Every bit of theorizing I've ever done, including my interest in Berg, has come as a consequence of discoveries I made as a composer and interests that I developed as a composer. I never thought of my theory as being a kind of irrelevant activity to my composing.”

Kind Made Done Bits Interest Theory Activity Discovery Consequence Including Composer Irrelevant Composing

Author:George Perle

“Television is a constant stream of fact, opinions, lies, moral dilemmas, plots: an infinitely complex and sophisticated torrent of information. How could it not make you cleverer? The only people who ever thought television rotted the brain and made kids dumb were those with a vested interest in other ways of learning, or those who were intellectually insecure, usually about books.”

“What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.”

Ifs Made Self Film Artist Interest United Company Greater Return Hollywood Mark Protection Allowing Distribution Self Interest Alliances Craziness Distributors Hart Chaplin

Author:Edward Jay Epstein

“A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government to command or prompt them in all matters of joint concern - who expect to have everything done for them, except what can be made an affair of mere habit and routine - have their faculties only half developed; their education is defective in one of its most important branches.”

Source: Principles of Political Economy: With Some of Their Applications to Social Philosophy : in Two Volumes

“The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is never used to explain table manners or road safety or gardening, only sex. Anyway, it was bad Darwinism. Taking the example of a monkey and applying it to yourself misses the point that animal behaviour is made for the benefit of the species, not as an excuse for the individual. Being incapable of sustaining a stable pair and supporting children is really not in the interests of our species. Neither is it really in the best interests of the philanderer.”

“I've made a way to allow myself to do big films, small films, dramas, comedies, action films, horror films, or whatever interests me, as a movie-goer. I like watching myself in movies. I want to choose movies that allow me to enjoy myself, the way that I want to entertain myself.”

Way Want Made Bigs Action Film Enjoy Interest Comedy Drama Horror Horror Film Action Films

Author:Samuel L. Jackson

“We talk to our guys all the time about the difference between interest and commitment. When you're interested in something, you do it when it's convenient. When you're committed to something, you do it all the time, even when you lost that feeling that you originally had when you you made the original commitment.”

Made Feelings Guy Lost Interest Differences Commitment Originals Committed Coaches Convenient

Author:Shaka Smart

“It is belief in the Bible, the fruits of deep meditation, which has served me as the guide of my moral and literary life. I have found capital safely invested and richly productive of interest, although I have sometimes made but a bad use of it.”

Made Sometimes Use Found Belief Interest Moral Meditation Bible Fruit Guides Productive Deep Meditation Belief In The Bible

Book:Memoirs of Goethe:

Source: Memoirs of Goethe:

“Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.”

Mind Made Book Interest Passionate Vow Mind Changing

Author:Annie Dillard

“I think it is a cornerstone of our electoral system that you raise electoral funds for elections but that doesn't mean that therefore the implication can be made that the recipients are incapable of transacting their interests and their duties towards people any differently.”

People Thinking Mean Made Interest Duty Raises Election Fund Incapable Implications Cornerstones Electoral Systems

Author:Bill Shorten

“One thing was very clear and I made it always very clear at the beginning when I got into the governorship, and that was that I wasn't trying to become a career politician. This was not like I was going to be governor for seven years and then I was going to run for the Senate and then for Congress. That was never my interest.”

Trying Years Made Running Interest Careers Clear One Thing Politician Seven Congress Made It Senate Governors Seven Years Career Politicians

Author:Arnold Schwarzenegger

“Religion must be life made true; and life is action, growth, development - begun now and ending never. And a life made true cannot confine itself - it must reach out and twine around every pulsing interest within reach of its uplifting tendrils.”

Made Action Life Is Growth Interest Development Uplifting Reach Out Within Reach

Book:A Voice from the South

Source: A Voice from the South

“Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.”

Made Age Moving Interest Generations Groups Stage Citizens Target Adolescence Senior Artifacts Midlife Senior Citizen Stages Of Life Interest Groups

Author:Jill Lepore

“American business would be run better today if there was more alignment between CEOs' interest and the company. For example, would the financial crisis of 2008 have occurred if the CEO of Lehman and Morgan Stanley and Goldman and Citibank had to take a very small percentage of every mortgage-backed security... or every loan they made?”

Ifs Made Would Be Running Today Interest Company Security Example Crisis Financial Ceo Loan Percentages Mortgage Alignment Financial Crisis Stanley American Business Citibank

Author:Aubrey McClendon

“Before I decided to concentrate on writing, I drew pictures and painted, and made Super 8 experimental movies. I was the singer in three rock bands, and I wrote and staged and acted in plays for kids in my neighborhood. So I was kind of all over the place in my interests and far-flung in terms of where my creativity wanted to end up.”

Writing Kind Made Ends Play Kids Wanted Three Term Interest Creativity Rocks Band Decided Singers Neighborhood Rock Bands

Author:Dennis Cooper

“I took little interest in fleshly infants; it being my private opinion that their attractions did not justify the fuss that was made about them. I had, for instance, early discovered that, if you gave a baby a finger to hold, it held it. This was perhaps interesting, but it wanted greatly in the dear element of surprise.”

Ifs Littles Made Wanted Interest Interesting Opinion Baby Elements Surprise Fingers Dear Attraction Instance Justify Infant Element Of Surprise

Book:The Singing Gold

Source: The Singing Gold

“Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with Highway, there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended Highway to be the first film that I ever made. Didnt happen.”

Firsts Made Stories Happens Film Certain Interest Loses Subtle Highways Influential

Author:Imtiaz Ali

“Canadians have an abiding interest in surprising those Americans who have historically made little effort to learn about their neighbour to the North.”

Littles Made Interest Effort Canada Surprising Neighbour Abiding Canada Day Canada Funny Happy Canada Day Canada Being Great

Author:Peter Jennings

“Harold Ramis really got my career going and was a friend for a long time. I was doing a play in L.A., and he came to see it a few times and recommended me to Ivan Reitman for Ghostbusters 2. Six months later, I quit real estate and was acting for good, and it was really because Harold took an interest in me and made a phone call and did stuff that people don't usually do, even if they like somebody.”

People Ifs Long Made Real Play Stuff Interest Acting Careers Months Six Long Time Phones Quitting Estates Six Months Phone Calls I Quit

Author:Kurt Fuller

“It is the people who constitute the basis of Government credit. Why then cannot the people have benefit of their own gilt-edge credit by receiving non-interest bearing currency-instead of bankers receiving the benefit of the people's credit in interest-bearing bonds. If the United States Government will adopt this policy of increasing its national wealth without contributing to the interest collector-for the whole national debt is made up on interest charges-then you will see an era of progress and prosperity in this country such as could never have come otherwise.”

“If some of my judgments were wrong - and some were wrong - they were made in what I believed at the time to be the best interest of the nation.”

Ifs Made Nations Interest Judgment Being The Best

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“Take away from the courts, if it could be taken away, the power to issue injunctions in labor disputes, and it would create a privileged class among the laborers and save the lawless among their number from a most needful remedy available to all men for the protection of their business interests against unlawful invasion.... The secondary boycott is an instrument of tyranny, and ought not to be made legitimate.”

Ifs Men Made Interest Numbers Class Issues Taken Ought Labor Instruments Court Available Protection Tyranny Remedy Privileged Disputes Invasion Laborers Boycott Unlawful

Author:William Howard Taft

“But having made my decision as Commander-in-Chief based on what I am convinced is our national security interests, I will seek authorization for the use of force from the American people's representatives in Congress.”

“Shopping seemed to take an entirely too important place in women's lives. You never saw men milling around in men's departments. They made quick work of it. I used to wonder if shopping was a form of escape for women who had no worthwhile interests.”

Ifs Men Made Important Form Used Interest Wonder Saws Department Shopping Worthwhile

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“Money has never been important to me. I come from garbage. I'm a sewer rat who made it here. I have no interest in money and never have.”

Made Important Interest Made It Rats Garbage Sewers

Author:Dane DeHaan

“Great minds do indeed react on the society which has made them what they are; but they only pay with interest what they have received.”

Mind Made Interest Pay Greatness Great Minds

Author:Thomas B. Macaulay

“The Federal Government has a responsibility to manage wisely those public lands and forests under its jurisdiction necessary in the interest of the public as a whole. ... In the utilization of these lands, the people are entitled to expect that their timber, minerals, streams and water supply, wildlife and recreational values should be safeguarded, improved and made available not only for this but for future generations.”

“I have made it a principle to give advice that does not serve my personal interest but rather the common interests.”

Giving Doe Made Interest Common Principles Advice Made It Common Interests Personal Interest

Author:George Soros

“I started to take a keen interest in food when I was 16 years old. When I was a young teenager my mother always encouraged my brother, my sister and I to get involved in the kitchen - stirring and smelling things so we would understand how things were made.”

Years Made Young Mother Interest Brother Involved Teenager My Brother Kitchen My Sister Get Involved Stirring

Author:Ainsley Harriott

“The tools are evolving, and people's interests are evolving as well. So, suddenly people like to hear bands, people like Devendra Banhart or the xx, bands that make a kind of virtue of sloppiness. That isn't what they would describe what they're doing, but the fact is they make a virtue of the sort of hand-made nature of what they're doing.”

People Wells Kind Made Facts Hands Interest Virtue Band Tools Evolve Sloppiness

Author:Brian Eno