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The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and irony.
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irony
color
compassion
beauty
detail
attention
interest
mystery
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Orhan Pamuk |
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And he read all morning, but just to make it interesting, he put lots of dragons in it.
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reading
books
interest
dragons
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Terry Pratchett |
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Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy a good number of us, when any line of action will promote our own interest, can make ourselves believe that reasons exist which compel us to it as a duty.
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ends
interest
sardonic
duty
reasoning
purpose
self-deception
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Elizabeth Gaskell |
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But the answer isn't just to intimidate people into consuming more 'serious' news; it is to push so-called serious outlets into learning to present important information in ways that can properly engage audiences. It is too easy to claim that serious things must be, and can almost afford to be, a bit boring. The challenge is to transcend the current dichotomy between those outlets that offer thoughtful but impotent instruction on the one hand and those that provide sensationalism stripped of responsibility on the other.
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responsibility
presentation
sensationalism
interest
news
thoughtfulness
seriousness
engagement
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Alain de Botton |
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It is difficult to begin without borrowing, but perhaps it is the most generous course thus to permit your fellow-men to have an interest in your enterprise. The owner of the axe, as he released his hold on it, said that it was the apple of his eye; but I returned it sharper than I received it.
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interest
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Henry David Thoreau |
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The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life. -William Morris.
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happy
secret
life
everyday
genuine
elevate
hygge
interest
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Louisa Thomsen Brits |
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Evidently, a given object took no particular amount of time to draw; instead the artist took the time, or didn't take it, at pleasure. And,similarly, things themselves possessed no fixed and intrinsic amount of interest; instead things were interesting as long as you had attention to give them. How long does it take to draw a baseball mitt? As much time as you care to give it. Not an infinite amount of time, but more time than you first imagined. For many days, so long as you want to keep drawing that mitt, and studying that mitt, there will always be a new and finer layer of distinctions to draw out and lay in. Your attention discovers--seems thereby to produce--an array of interesting features in any object, like a lamp.
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drawing
interesting
interest
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Annie Dillard |
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To grow interested in any piece of information, we need somewhere to 'put' it, which means some way of connecting it to an issue we already now how to care about.
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categorization
information
interest
organization
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Alain de Botton |
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But what I mean is, lots of time you don't know what interests you most till you start talking about something that doesn't interest you most.
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doesnt
most
you
interest
something
start
talking
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J.D. Salinger |
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He started from nothing, I hear say, and now he's got the only supermarket in the barrio. He has a big Cadillac car, and a lot of political connections at City Hall. They say he delivers the barrio's votes every election, for the right price. Some of the people call him el patron. Of course he takes his mordida from everyone--Do you know he charges the people on welfare a dime to cash their checks. He gets a man a job, and he takes a bite. He gets someone out of jail, or helps someone apply for welfare or social security, and he gets a small cut. He charges a fee for everything, and all those small fees have made him rich--' 'It doesn't seem fair,' Jason reflected. 'No,' Clemente agreed, 'but it's the way we're learning to live, like the americano, there is a fee for everything
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credit
interest
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Rudolfo Anaya |
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Throughout this book I have tried to point out why interest, especially as it has been used by people such as Hume, Smith, Tocqueville, and Weber, is still a very useful concept. One reason why the concept of interest imparts a distinct dynamic to the analysis is that it is mainly interest which makes people takes action. It supplies the force that makes people get up at dawn and work very hard throughout the day. Combined with interests of others, it is a force that can move mountains and create new societies.
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alexis-de-tocqueville
economic-sociology
max-weber
david-hume
interest
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Richard Swedberg |