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 blinds some people, and enlightens others.

Interest blinds some people, and enlightens others. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is key. Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.

Nothing is interesting if you're not interested. (Helen MacInness)

is a way of observing which, once adopted, allows objects to release latent layers of value.

Once I began to consider everything as being of potential interest, objects released latent layers of value. (Alain de Botton).

is never man's true motivating factor. In the course of all these thousands of years, when has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests.

When . . . in the course of all these thousands of years has man ever acted in accordance with his own interests' Fyodor Dostoevsky

is that which puts all virtue and vice in motion.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest. Francois de La Rochefoucauld

is the most important thing in life... happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous.

Interest is the most important thing in life... happiness is temporary, but interest is continuous. (Georgia O'Keeffe)

is the spur of the people, but glory is the spur of great souls.

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

is always ultimately directed at oneself. A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself.

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself.