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“No work with interest is ever hard.” Henry Ford, My Life and Work
“lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“events only become experiences through the interest that we take in them: if they do not interest us, we are making nothing of them.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“They love their hair because they aren't smart enough to love something more interesting.” John Green, Looking for Alaska
“There is only one thing which interests me vitally now, and that is the recording of all that which is omitted in books.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“It is solely on the basis of this common interest that every society should be governed.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, The Social Contract
“My own business always bores me to death. I prefer other people’s.” Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan
“How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.” Adam Smith, The Theory of Moral Sentiments
“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, The Wealth of Nations
“Life is too short to be interested in everything, but it is good to be interested in as many things as are necessary to fill our days.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honor steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.” Woodrow Wilson, We Must Accept War
“Consumption is the sole end and purpose of all production; and the interest of the producer ought to be attended to, only so far as it may be necessary for promoting that of the consumer.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“The trouble with me is, I like it when somebody digresses. It's more interesting and all.” J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
“When you are inquisitive, Jane, you always make me smile. You open your eyes like an eager bird, and make every now and then a restless movement, as if answers in speech did not flow fast enough for you, and you wanted to read the tablet of one's...” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“The interest of the dealers, however, in any particular branch of trade or manufactures, is always in some respects different from, and even opposite to, that of the public.” Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations
“Where the heart is really attached, I know very well how little one can be pleased with the attention of anybody else. Everything is so insipid, so uninteresting, that does not relate to the beloved object!” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“No country sacrifices its men without reason, and certainly not in the interests of another” Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
“You were disgusted with the women who were always speaking, and looking, and thinking for your approbation alone. I roused, and interested you, because I was so unlike them.” Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
“There are chance meetings with strangers that interest us from the first moment, before a word is spoken.” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment
“don't expect others to take as much interest in you as you do yourself.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“The requisites for board membership should be business savvy, interest in the job, and owner-orientation.” Warren Buffett, The Essays of Warren Buffett
“EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than in me.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.” John Stuart Mill, Considerations on Representative Government
“All men are liable to error, and most men are in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it.” John Locke, An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
“The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up above the forms of democracy.” Woodrow Wilson, The New Freedom
“And nothing was interesting, nothing. The people were restrictive and careful, all alike. And I've got to live with these fuckers for the rest of my life, I thought.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“No nation ought to be without a debt. A national debt is a national bond; and when it bears no interest, is in no case a grievance.” Thomas Paine, Common Sense
“where the publique and private interest are most closely united, there is the publique most advanced.” Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan
“The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.” Bertrand Russell, The Conquest of Happiness
“it wasn't enough to just do your job, you had to have an interest in it, even a passion for it.” Charles Bukowski, Factotum
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same. Everything interests me, but nothing holds me. I attend to everything, dreaming all the while.” Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet
“The doctrine of interest rightly understood is not, then, new, but amongst the Americans of our time it finds universal acceptance: it has become popular there; you may trace it at the bottom of all their actions, you will remark it in all they say.” Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America
“Nothing ever fatigues me but doing what I do not like.” Jane Austen, Mansfield Park
“The most important things to remember about back story are that (a) everyone has a history and (b) most of it isn’t very interesting.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.” John Steinbeck, East of Eden

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