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“The more you achieve, the more interest it should spark to go further, because there's so much - and I don't mean monetarily and I don't mean in society. This whole experience of living is so rich!”

Should Mean Whole Interest Rich Achieve Sparks

Author:Susan Powter

“If 'extreme' means that I am unwilling to go to Washington, D.C., and do what President Obama tells me, then so be it. But I am certainly not going to Washington, D.C. to represent the interests of D.C. I'm going there to represent Colorado values.”

Ifs Mean Values President Interest Extremes President Obama Unwilling Colorado

Author:Ken Buck

“The man who is meek is not even sensitive about himself. He is not always watching himself and his own interests. He is not always on the defensive… To be truly meek means we no longer protect ourselves, because we see there is nothing worth defending… The man who is truly meek never pities himself, he is never sorry for himself. He never talks to himself and says, “You are having a hard time, how unkind these people are not to understand you.”

People Men Mean Hard Interest He Man Protect Sorry Pity Sensitive Hard Times Meek Unkind Having A Hard Time

Author:Martyn

“What I mean by living to one's-self is living in the world, as in it, not of it: it is as if no one know there was such a person, and you wished no one to know it: it is to be a silent spectator of the mighty scene of things, not an object of attention or curiosity in it; to take a thoughtful, anxious interest in what is passing in the world, but not to feel the slightest inclination to make or meddle with it.”

Ifs Knows World Feels Mean Persons Self Interest Attention Objects Scene Silent Curiosity Passing Passings Thoughtful Anxious Inclination Spectators

Book:Table-talk: Or Original Essays

Source: Table-talk: Or Original Essays

“That which interests me above all else is the calligraphy of a tree or the tiles of a roof, and I mean leaf by leaf, branch by branch, blade by blade of grass.”

Mean Interest Tree Grass Branches Roof Leafs Blades Blades Of Grass Tiles Calligraphy

Author:Joan Miro

“Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.”

Ifs Mean Certain Girl Interest Poor Rich Arms Achievement Mark Links Sympathy That Girl Badges Mean Girls

Author:Juliette Gordon Low

“I enter a whorehouse with the same interest as I do the British museum or the Metropolitan - in the same spirit of curiosity. Here are the works of man, here is an art of man, here is the eternal pursuit of gold and pleasure. I couldn't be more sincere. This doesn't mean that if I go to La Scala in Milan to hear Carmen I want to get up on the stage and participate. I do not. Neither do I always participate in a fine representative national whorehouse - but I must see it as a spectacle, an offering, a symptom of a nation.”

“To become an Architect in the right sense of the word means that a man shall give his life to it and nothing else, and shall study the work he has to do with enthusiastic interest in every detail pertaining to it, and content himself with nothing less than complete success.”

Men Giving Mean Interest Study Details Architect Enthusiastic

Author:Cass Gilbert

“Intercession means that we deliberately substitute God’s interests in others for our natural sympathy with them.”

Mean Interest Natural Substitutes Intercession Interest In Others

Book:My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

Source: My Utmost for His Highest Classic Edition

“I have nothing but myself to write about, no facts, no theories, no opinions, no adventures, no sentiments, nothing but my own poor barren individualism, of considerable interest to me, but I do not know why I should presume it will be so to you. Egotism is not tiresome, or it ought not to be, if one is sincere about oneself; but it is so hard to be sincere. Well, never mind, I mean to be, and you know me well enough to see through me when I am humbugging.”

Ifs Knows Should Writing Mind Wells Mean Hard Enough Facts Interest My Own Poor Opinion Adventure Theory Ought Oneself Sincere Sentiments Individualism Know Me Egotism Barren Tiresome

Book:The Nemesis of Faith

Source: The Nemesis of Faith

“The most violent, mean and malignant passions of the human breast, the Furies of private interest.”

Humans Mean Passion Interest Violent Breasts Fury

Book:Karl Marx: Selected Writings

Source: Karl Marx: Selected Writings

“I've been trying to write for as long as I can remember. But those first fifteen years didn't produce much of great interest. I mean, it embarrasses me very much to look back on my early poems--very few lines of any merit at all and lots of affectation. But there were quite a lot of them. That's a point in one's favor.”

Writing Trying Years Firsts Looks Mean Long I Can Remember Interest Lines Produce Favors Merit Fifteen Fifteen Years

Author:Kingsley Amis

“Those of us who have the privilege to serve this country have an obligation to do our job as best we can. We come from different parties, but we are Americans first. And that's why disagreement cannot mean dysfunction. It can't degenerate into hatred. The American people's hopes and dreams are what matters, not ours. Our obligations are to them. Our regard for them compels us all, Democrats and Republicans, to cooperate, and compromise, and act in the best interests of our nation - one nation, under God, indivisible with liberty and justice for all.”

“It is because the cosmos is meaningless that we must secure our individual illusions of values, direction, and interest by upholding the artificial streams which give us such worlds of salutary illusion. That is - since nothing means anything in itself, we must preserve the proximate and arbitrary background which makes things around us seem as if they did mean something.”

Ifs World Giving Mean Seems Values Individual Interest Illusion Backgrounds Secure Preserves Streams Cosmos Meaningless Artificial Arbitrary Englishmen

Author:H. P. Lovecraft