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“I desire to go through life knowing as little of evil in it as possible. To this end, I sometimes avoid looking too closely into the nature of things, studying them only so far as they seem to be good, and abandoning interest in them as soon as their darker feature begin to appear. The good only deserves a hearty interest.”

Littles Ends Sometimes Seems Desire Evil Interest Knowing Study Deserve Be Good Features Hearty

Author:Christian Nestell Bovee

“Each pursues his private interest and only his private interest; and thereby serves the private interests of all, the general interest, without willing it or knowing it. The real point is not that each individual's pursuit of his private interest promotes the totality of private interests, the general interest. One could just as well deduce from this abstract phrase that each individual reciprocally blocks the assertion of the others' interests, so that, instead of a general affirmation, this war of all against all produces a general negation.”

Wells War Real Individual Interest Knowing Produce Willing Pursuit Pursue Block Phrases Abstract Affirmation Assertion Totality Negation

Author:Karl Marx

“If that god is described as being all-powerful and all-knowing and all-good, I don't see evidence for it anywhere in the world. So I remain unconvinced. If that god is all-powerful and all-good, I don't see that when a tsunami kills a quarter-million or an earthquake kills a quarter-million people. I'd like to think of good as something in the interest of your health or longevity.”

People Ifs Thinking World Interest Powerful Millions Knowing Evidence Quarters Longevity Earthquakes Tsunami

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“A child, not knowing what is extraordinary and what is commonplace, usually lights midway between the two, finds interest in incidents adults consider beneath notice, and calmly accepts the most improbable occurrences.”

Children Two Light Interest Accepting Knowing Adults Extraordinary Not Knowing Incidents Commonplace Improbable Midway

Book:The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas

Source: The fifth head of Cerberus: three novellas

“That men have an interest in knowing the world which surrounds them, and consequently that their reflection should have been applied to it at an early date, is something that everyone will readily admit.”

Men World Should Has Beens Interest Knowing Reflection Should Have Surround Should Have Been

Author:Emile Durkheim

“In astronomy, the law of gravitation is plainly better worth knowing than the position of a particular planet on a particular night, or even on every night throughout a year. There are in the law a splendour and simplicity and sense of mastery which illuminate a mass of otherwise uninteresting details. But in history the matter is far otherwise. Historical facts, many of them, have an intrinsic value, a profound interest on their own account, which makes them worthy of study, quite apart from any possibility of linking them together by means of causal laws.”

“I think the most important key to quality communication and interaction is developing an interest in the person you`re talking with. Most women know the secret to a quality conversation is to ask quality questions and have a sincere interest in hearing the answers. In fact, the best communicators very often say the least. It`s not the extrovert who dominates the conversation that a client feels most connected with, but rather the individual who shows a real and sincere interest in knowing about the life of the person they`re talking with.”

“I feel a much greater interest in knowing what has passed two or three thousand years ago, than in what is now passing. I read nothing, therefore, but of the heroes of Troy, ... of Pompey and Caesar, and of Augustus too.”

Feels Years Two Three Interest Knowing Greater Hero Thousand Years Ago Passing Passings Thousand Years Augustus Pompey

Book:Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

Source: Selected letters of Thomas Jefferson

“Knowing more about the public effects his work will have, the engineer ought to consider himself an "officer of the court" and keep the general interest always in mind.”

Mind Interest Knowing Effects Ought Court Officers Engineers Knowing More

Book:Education and Freedom

Source: Education and Freedom

“Suffering can serve us. Suffering tests our trust in God's promises. And we have a great interest in knowing the truth about our trust in Him.”

Suffering Interest Knowing Promise Tests Trust In God Knowing The Truth

Author:Mark Dever