#rests

Opinions have vested interests just as men have. ↗

— Samuel Butler

#just #men #opinions #vested #vested interests

One needs occasionally to stand aside from the hum and rush of human interests and passions to hear the voices of God. ↗

— Anna Julia Cooper

#god #hear #hum #human #interests

As the GAO report recognizes, the long-term health of our forests relies on additional fuel reduction options and funding to reduce the risks that catastrophic fire poses to our nation's ecosystems, communities and federal budgetary resources. ↗

— Greg Walden

#budgetary #catastrophic #communities #ecosystems #federal

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place. ↗

— Lawrence Lessig

#gone #government #governments #interests #other

But poetry is a way of language, it is not its subject or its maker's background or interests or hobbies or fixations. It is nearer to utterance than history. ↗

— Thomas Lynch

#history #hobbies #interests #language #maker

Cliches about supporting the troops are designed to distract from failed policies, policies promoted by powerful special interests that benefit from war, anything to steer the discussion away from the real reasons the war in Iraq will not end anytime soon. ↗

— Ron Paul

#anything #anytime #away #benefit #cliches

In the rich world, the environmental situation has improved dramatically. In the United States, the most important environmental indicator, particulate air pollution, has been cut by more than half since 1955, rivers and coastal waters have dramatically improved, and forests are increasing. ↗

— Bjorn Lomborg

#air pollution #been #coastal #cut #dramatically

So is it always nationalist to resist US globalization? The US thinks it is, and wants you to agree; and, moreover, to consider US interests as being universal ones. ↗

— Fredric Jameson

#always #being #consider #globalization #interests

The Republicans are looking after the financial interests of the wealthiest individuals in this country. ↗

— Edward Kennedy

#country #financial #individuals #interests #looking

The day the producers aren't minting money, or the fans are done with me and, most of all, I as a person get bored of acting, I will stop and pursue my other interests. There is a lot to do: painting, writing, direction. ↗

— Salman Khan

#bored #day #direction #done #fans