“ I don't think the discus will ever attract any interest until they let us start throwing them at one another. ”
- Al Oerter- Copy
- 1.9K
“ Charm is a way of getting the answer yes without having asked any clear question. ”
- Albert Camus- Copy
- 3.6K
“ To me, the charm of an encyclopedia is that it knows and I needn't. ”
- Francis Yeats Brown- Copy
- 356
“ Competition, founded upon the conflicting interests of individuals, is in reality far less productive of wealth and enterprise than co-operation, involving though it does the constant apparent sacrifice of the individual to the common interests. ”
- Robert Hugh Benson- Copy
- 711
“ Come, and take choice of all my library,And so beguile thy sorrow. ”
- William Shakespeare- Copy
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“ Music first and last should sound well, should allure and enchant the ear. Never mind the inner significance. ”
- Thomas Beecham- Copy
- 940
“ Yon nightingale, whose strain so sweetly flows, Mourning her ravish'd young or much-loved mate, A soothing charm o'er all the valleys throws And skies, with notes well tuned to her and state. ”
- Francesco Petrarch- Copy
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“ Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles. ”
- Arthur James Balfour- Copy
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“ An open society is a society which allows its members the greatest possible degree of freedom in pursuing their interests compatible with the interests of others. ”
- George Soros- Copy
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“ As far as men go, it is not what they are that interests me, but what they can become. ”
- Jean Paul Sartre- Copy
- 771
“ One mustn't look at the abyss, because there is at the bottom an inexpressible charm which attracts us. ”
- Gustave Flaubert- Copy
- 1.6K
“ The classroom should be an entrance into the world, not an escape from it. ”
- John Ciardi- Copy
- 1.1K
“ In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves. ”
- George H. Mead- Copy
- 646
“ Teacher unions are an interest group that acts in defense of their own interests, which means the union bosses' interests, not the members. ”
- Peter Brimelow- Copy
- 701
“ For I / Except you enthrall me, never shall be free, / Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me. ”
- John Donne- Copy
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“ Legislation can neither be wise nor just which seeks the welfare of a single interest at the expense and to the injury of many and varied interests. ”
- Andrew Johnson- Copy
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“ Until now, until I actually got into law class, I just never thought of it as being an interest for me, but it's really funny because now that I'm in law, I'm like 'Wow, I could be a lawyer. ”
- Lisa Leslie- Copy
- 476
“ I feel I'm two people: I have my interest in acting and I have a lot of other political interests I'd like to pursue. ”
- Alec Baldwin- Copy
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“ A strange and somewhat impassive physiognomy is often, perhaps, an advantage to an orator, or leader of any sort, because it helps to fix the eye and fascinate the mind. ”
- Charles Horton Cooley- Copy
- 317
“ I like work; it fascinates me. I can sit and look at it for hours. I love to keep it by me; the idea of getting rid of it nearly breaks my heart. ”
- Jerome K. Jerome- Copy
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“ None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. ”
- Francis Bacon- Copy
- 546
“ Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good. ”
- George Will- Copy
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“ It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't. ”
- Mignon McLaughlin- Copy
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