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common interest
«One cannot play chess if one becomes aware of the pieces as living souls and of the fact that the Whites and the Blacks have more in common with each other than with the players. Suddenly one loses all interest in who will be champion.»
Author: Anatol Rapoport
| About:
Chess,
Play
| Keywords:
blacks, champion, chess, chess piece, chess player, common interest, The Blacks, The Whites, whites
«The child learns more of the virtues needed in modern life-of fairness, of justice, of comradeship, of collective interest and action-in a common school than can be taught in the most perfect family circle»
Author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
(Economist, Lecturer, Writer)
| About:
Virtue
| Keywords:
collective, common interest, common school, comradeship, fairness, family circle, Modern School
«There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.»
Author: Sandy Koufax
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
common interest, fraternal, organization, purely, social organization
«Innocence can be redefined and called stupidity. Honesty can be called gullibility. Candor becomes lack of common sense. Interest in your work can be called cowardice. Generosity can be called soft-headedness, and observe : the former is disturbing,»
Author: Abraham Maslow
(Philosopher, Psychologist)
| About:
Generosity,
Honesty,
Innocence,
Work
| Keywords:
candor, common interest, cowardice, disturbing, generosity, gullibility, redefine, redefined, Redefining
«The world has never truly had to develop an ethic of interdependence rooted in our common humanity. And if we do it, the 21st century will be the most interesting, exciting, peaceful era in history.»
Author: Bill Clinton
(President)
| Keywords:
common interest, era, eras, ethic, exciting, interdependence, in history, peaceful, rooted, The 21st Century
«It had become clear to me, in a flash of illumination, that for me the only possible goal was psychiatry. Here alone the two currents of my interest could flow together and in a united stream dig their own bed. Here was the empirical field common to biological and spiritual facts, which I had everywhere sought and nowhere found. Here at last was the place where the collision of nature and spirit became a reality.»
Author: Carl Gustav Jung
(Founder, Psychologist)
| Keywords:
common interest, dig, empirical, field goal, flash, illumination, illuminations, in a flash, psychiatry
«That's the interesting thing about becoming a father. Suddenly you universally have something in common with other people. I can be sitting next to a very straight, humorless businessman or stockbroker type on an airplane and we'll just start talking about kids. And that conversation last three or four hours.»
Author: Johnny Depp
(Actor)
| Keywords:
airplane, Airplanes, businessman, common interest, conversation, Father, hours, humorless, interesting, in common, kids, sitting, straight, suddenly, talking, type, universally
«A patriot is he whose public conduct is regulated by one single motive, the love of his country; who, as an agent in parliament, has, for himself, neither hope nor fear, neither kindness nor resentment, but refers every thing to the common interest»
Author: Samuel Johnson
(Critic, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Patriotism
| Keywords:
common interest, refers, regulated
«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