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He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.


John Ruskin

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He who can take no great interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great
JOHN RUSKIN He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
JOHN RUSKIN He who can take no interest in what is small, will take false interest in what is great.
UNKNOWN What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small intere...
FRANCOIS DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small inter...
FRANCOIS, DUC DE LA ROCHEFOUCAULD In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes. - John Ruskin,
JOHN RUSKIN Ques eso? Queso?
NOLAN J. VANDER HAAGEN This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it.
JOHN DALTON This paper will no doubt be found interesting by those who take an interest in it
JOHN DALTON We all need to take great interest in the future because we will spend the rest of our life there.
SOURCE UNKNOWN When push comes to shove would people do what they felt was right, to get justice done or would they...
GARY F EVANS... How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. When you add love to sex, it feels as if your soul is being drawn from the chains of gravity into th...
CHLOE THURLOW Love? I always thought love was just something that ate away your sanity, left you with an inferiori...
TOMOKO HAYAKAWA How do you love your children?
By doing what's best for them.
Then how would you love your...
J. GRANT HOWARD There is a law of the natural worlds (the spiritual and the physical) and this is something I have u...
C. JOYBELL C. Today A woman is one who tries to bring a man down. A man is one who has to keep that woman in check...
APURVA GAGLANI No citizen is apolitical; as a citizen, by definition, has to take interest in public affairs.
MOHAMMAD HAMID ANSARI Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in...
PERICLES Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an interest in...
PERICLES There's a lot of people who take an interest in it.
GRIER STANLEY It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN What they can take credit for is the increased local interest in Burning Man. If people care about B...
LARRY HARVEY AS A MIND, who the hell else is there left for me to take an interest IN??
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WILFRID SELLARS FOOTBALL IS A DECISION GAME BASED ON QUICK THINKING IN RELATION TO WHAT IS HAPPENING AROUND YOU AND ...
LERCHE NJANG The opportunity to decieve others is ever present and often tempting, and each instance of deception...
SAM HARRIS Just because you do not take an interest in politics doesn't mean politics won't take an int...
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ROBIN SACREDFIRE The small are always dependent on the great; they are "small" precisely because they think they are ...
MARTIN HEIDEGGER He's a man of integrity and a team player, and he can take great pride in what he has accomplished a...
DON KAVERMAN If I were John Bolton, I'd take great consolation in the words of my principal supporter on the ...
MARK SHIELDS So there is very great interest from the military in this technology.
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CEO MIKE BOWEN Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.
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MATHIEU SCHNEIDER What this really is in the best interest of is the very small and vocal political group that is tryi...
JENNIFER CHRISLER The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest ...
IRVING THALBERG The movie medium will eventually take its place as art because there is no other medium of interest ...
IRVING THALBERG Our immigration policy should be driven by what is in the best interest of this great country and th...
CHARLES B. RANGEL We've got some real greedy hogs who own no interest in the company they're running, whose so...
JOE JAMAIL A person who speaks honestly in the public interest has, most often, to pay unfortunately the heavie...
ANUJ SOMANY Imagination can take you to any place of interest.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA What is in the public interest? It is in the public interest to eliminate a threat to public health ...
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ERIK GRIFFIN We shall never get people whose time is money to take much interest in atoms.
SAMUEL BUTLER A vacation is what you take when can no longer take what you've been taking.
EARL WILSON I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER Stand for something. Make your life mean something. Start where you are with what you have. You are ...
GERMANY KENT Well, I never seen one guy take so much trouble for another guy. I just like to know what your inter...
JOHN STEINBECK What is sin?
It is the glory of God not honored.
The holiness of God not reverenced.
...
JOHN PIPER Love is insanity, apparently.
COREY ANN HAYDU Love, real love, the kind that you fall in, isn’t like Corinthians. The “suffereth long” and �...
JULIE ANNE LONG Love without reason is fleeting; love without emotion, dry.
J.R. MORALES Szerzetesek, vannak tanulatlan, közönséges emberek, akik nem gondolnak a nemes dolgokkal, nem hal...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA És Brahmá, a Teremtő, felső ruháját fél vállán átvetve, összetett kézzel meghajolt a Mag...
GAUTAMA BUDDHA Bush wants to prove that he has no interest in the Iraqi oil by doing what he did to Iraq.
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ROBIN SACREDFIRE Those men who live with the greatest intensity are often the ones who seem to take least interest in...
RéMY DE GOURMONT Politics is ugly. Never doubt what small men will do for great power.
PAOLO BACIGALUPI What interest does someone outside our state have to do with an election in a small town in Florida?
JANICE MILLER I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science ficti...
CONNIE WILLIS God Is Great. If these three words together enshrine in our mind, heart and soul, then there is neve...
ANUJ SOMANY Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
IRWIN COREY Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
IRWIN CORY Marriage is like a bank account. You put it in, you take it out, you lose interest.
PROFESSOR IRWIN COREY A vacation is what you take when you can no longer take what you've been taking.
EARL WILSON The Federal Reserve has lowered the bar on what it would take for them to lower interest rates,
GEMMA WRIGHT My passion for snacking and search for a great tasting, better-for-you snack sparked my interest in ...
KEITH BELLING I used to think that the worst form of discrimination for women was being hit on or hearing somethin...
LEILA JANAH If he has interest in playing for us next season, we will have interest in him.
BILL BAVASI See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS A young man, be his merit what it will, can never raise himself; but must, like the ivy round the oa...
PHILIP STANHOPE, 4TH EARL OF CHESTERFIELD Let your actions speak LOVE. No matter what it is.
NAPZ CHERUB PELLAZO We can take this event to the community. It is a great way to let people know what we do.
SARAH BEATTY If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him. An investment in knowled...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN If a man empties his purse into his head no one can take it away from him. An investment in knowledg...
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN The teachers here take so much more interest in the students. They're giving him the individual atte...
BYRON SR The teachers here take so much more interest in the students. They're giving him the individual atte...
BYRON HUGHES SR By self-interest, Man has become gregarious, but in instinct he has remained to a great extent solit...
BERTRAND RUSSELL What if — is more complicated than that? What if maybe opposite is true as well? Because, if bad c...
DONNA TARTT If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand
CONFUCIUS If a man take no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand.
CONFUCIUS There is great interest in nursing, but not everyone can get in. So we want to redirect some of them...
JUDY PAPENHAUSEN The truth is that, contrary to the cartoon-like portrayals of John Roberts by special interest group...
JENNIFER BRACERAS I don't think of my books as being biographies. I never had any interest in doing a book just to...
ROBERT CARO What governments and people don't realise is that sometimes the collective interest - the intern...
KOFI ANNAN What worries me ... (is) that they will penalize European growth through hasty increases in interest...
BERNARD ARNAULT It is so fascinating that when after a hard stressful day we calm our mind and release the stress fr...
GARY F EVANS... A publisher should always be on the receiving end. He should take an interest in almost any subject ...
CASS CANFIELD He continues to amaze you in what he is able to do. The ball is a little bit slippery and the grass ...
BOB STOOPS A lot of kids are simply users. They have no interest in programming. Others will figure out what pr...
BILL BUDGE That's why we will keep making these warnings and if necessary take further action, ... can increase...
ALAN BOLLARD Real love is feeling so loved and so secure that even your name feels safe in his mouth.
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JOHN RUSKIN There is nothing in the world that some man cannot make a little worse and sell a little cheaper, an...
JOHN RUSKIN This is the true nature of home -- it is the place of Peace; the shelter, not only from injury, but ...
JOHN RUSKIN Our duty is to preserve what the past has had to say for itself, and to say for ourselves what shall...
JOHN RUSKIN A knave’s religion is always the rottenest thing about him.
JOHN RUSKIN We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty...
JOHN RUSKIN The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain wi...
JOHN RUSKIN The best thing in life aren't things.
JOHN RUSKIN A thing is worth what it can do for you, not what you choose to pay for it.
JOHN RUSKIN Government and cooperation are in all things the laws of life. Anarchy and competition, the laws of ...
JOHN RUSKIN Let us reform our schools, and we shall find little reform needed in our prisons.
JOHN RUSKIN Of all the pulpits from which human voice is ever sent forth, there is none from which it reaches so...
JOHN RUSKIN In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: They must be fit for...
JOHN RUSKIN There is scarcely anything in the world that some man cannot make a little worse, and sell a little ...
JOHN RUSKIN You will find that the mere resolve not to be useless, and the honest desire to help other people, w...
JOHN RUSKIN When a man is wrapped up in himself, he makes a pretty small package.
JOHN RUSKIN What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little consequence. The only c...
JOHN RUSKIN The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it, but what he becomes by it.
JOHN RUSKIN