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Letter "G" » general interest
«Men are made uneasy; they flinch; they cannot bear the sudden light; a general restlessness supervenes; the face of society is disturbed, or perhaps convulsed; old interests and old beliefs have been destroyed before new ones have been created. These symptoms are the precursors of revolution; they have preceded all the great changes through which the world has passed.»
Author: Henry Thomas Buckle
| Keywords:
disturbed, flinch, flinching, general interest, preceded, precursor, precursors, uneasy
«Of all forms of government and society, those of free men and women are in many respects the most brittle. They give the fullest freedom for activities of private persons and groups who often identify their own interests, essentially selfish, with the general welfare.»
Author: Dorothy Thompson
| Keywords:
activities, brittle, forms of government, fullest, General Government, general interest, identify, private interest, respects
«For law, in its true notion, is not so much the limitation, as the direction of a free and intelligent agent to his proper interest, and prescribes no farther than is for the general good of those under the law»
Author: John Locke
(Philosopher)
| About:
Law and lawyers
| Keywords:
agent, farther, free agent, Free agents, general interest, limitation, notion, prescribes, The General
«Humanity needs practical men, who get the most out of their work, and, without forgetting the general good, safeguard their own interests. But humanity also needs dreamers, for whom the disinterested development of an enterprise is so captivating that it becomes impossible for them to devote their care to their own material profit.»
Author: Marie Curie
(Physicist)
| About:
Humanity,
Needs
| Keywords:
captivate, captivated, captivates, captivating, disinterested, dreamers, enterprise, forgetting, general interest, practical, safeguard, Tha, The General
«Adults are interested if you don't play down to the little 2 or 3 year olds or talk down. I don't believe in talking down to children. I don't believe in talking down to any certain segment. I like to kind of just talk in a general way to the audience. Children are always reaching.»
Author: Walt Disney
(Producer)
| Keywords:
adults, general interest, Olds, play down, reaching, segment, segments, talk down
«The general interest of the masses might take the place of the insight of genius if it were allowed freedom of action.»
«Parliament is not a congress of ambassadors from different and hostile interests; which interests each must maintain, as an agent and advocate, against other agents and advocates; but parliament is a deliberative assembly of one nation, with one interest, that of the whole; where, not local purposes, not local prejudices ought to guide, but the general good, resulting from the general reason of the whole. You choose a member indeed; but when you have chosen him, he is not a member of Bristol, but he is a member of parliament.»
Author: Edmund Burke
(Philosopher, Statesman)
| Keywords:
advocate, advocates, agent, agents, ambassadors, assembly, Bristol, congress, Congress of, deliberative, general assembly, general interest, hostile, local, member, Member of Parliament, One Nation, parliament, parliaments, prejudices, purposes, resulting, The Ambassadors, The General
«In general I esteem it a good maxim, that the best way to preserve the confidence of the people durably is to promote their true interest»
Author: George Washington
(President)
| Keywords:
Best interests, esteem, general, general interest, interest, in general, maxim, preserve, promote, promotes
«The instant formal government is abolished, society begins to act. A general association takes place, and common interest produces common security.»
Author: Thomas Paine
(Writer)
| About:
Action,
Government,
Society
| Keywords:
abolished, association, common interest, formal, General Government, general interest, instant, produces, The Association
«The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.»
Author: Virginia Woolf
(Writer)
| About:
Communication
| Keywords:
antagonistic, communicate, enigmatic, general interest, in general, largely, lie in, persuadable, relations, third party, to each other
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