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Whoever moves into a community has a vested interest in it. -- Andrew Goodman
The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find. -- Francis Aungier
If anyone has a vested interest in space solar power, it would have to be me. -- Elon Musk
Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist. -- Richard M. Nixon
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. -- Joseph A. Schumpeter
Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. -- Susan Sontag
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Scientists are being portrayed by much of the power structure in politics and business as having a vested interest - that they're just out to get more grant money by exaggerating the threats. -- David Suzuki
There are people with vested interest who do not want us to reform our energy sector so that we remain dependent on imports. All reform moves are resisted. Bureaucrats are hesitant to take bold decisions. -- Veerappa Moily
It's not just politicians. Any spokesman for a vested interest is well schooled in how to say what it is they wish to say, which may bear no relation at all to what you've asked them. -- Jeremy Paxman
When a kid can understand that a word can mean two things, there's some real thinking going on. They have a vested interest in finding out what a word means, because it's the punch line to a joke. -- Brian P. Cleary
Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust. -- Ralph Nader
I don't think my background in Zambia has really affected my lens because my classical training has been Western-style. But it's fantastically fortuitous to have been born African because I don't feel I have a vested interest to the U.S. or China or wherever. -- Dambisa Moyo
Every time you cut programs, you take away a person who has a vested interest in high taxes and you put him on the tax rolls and make him a taxpayer. A farmer on subsidies is part welfare bum, whereas a free-market farmer is a small businessman with a gun. -- Grover Norquist
Of course, I have a different vested interest in the gay community, because I am gay, and I would certainly enjoy the tax advantages that straight people have, and the inheritance advantages, and things like Social Security, but I've always been a civil rights advocate across the board. That's how I was raised. -- Janis Ian
Most of the people around me have a vested interest in how much money I make. You know, so a celebrity could find themselves in a position where people could have meetings about their life without them involved. And when I say 'their life' I mean not their professional life either. They could talk about their personal life. -- Dave Chappelle
Fight Master' is a show that Spike came up with. Obviously, Spike has a vested interest in Bellator, which is filling a void that was created when the UFC and 'The Ultimate Fighter' left and went to Fox. I think this fills a huge piece of the puzzle for the folks at Spike, in terms of demographics and what programming they like to do. -- Randy Couture
Human beings have a vested interest in being trustworthy. -- Desmond Tutu
There's a vested interest in trying to keep people smoking cigarettes. -- Sylvia Earle
Both political parties have a richly vested interest in corporate corruption. -- Arianna Huffington
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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health. -- George Bernard Shaw
ISTPs have a vested interest in practical and applied science, especially in the field of mechanics. -- Isabel Briggs Myers
Ideas may be superior to vested interest. They are also very often the children of vested interest. -- John Kenneth Galbraith
Any one of the strange laws we suffer is a compromise between a fad and a vested interest. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
The only real struggle in the history of the world ... is between the vested interest and social justice. -- Arnold J. Toynbee
There are a great many people who have a vested interest in maintaining the stupidity of the American public. -- Gore Vidal
People have a vested interest in promoting one set of polices rather than finding out what the truth is. -- Thomas Sowell
There is such a thing as truth, but we have a vested interest in not seeing it, in avoiding it. -- Errol Morris
God is not a God of the edges, with a vested interest in beginnings. God is the God of the whole show. -- John Polkinghorne
Having a vested interest in other souls unconditionally creates a ripple effect that produces miracles in the lives of those around us. -- Molly Friedenfeld
Every historian has a vested interest. "The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire" was not about the Roman but the British empire. What price the truth? -- Peter Greenaway
Clergy had a vested interest in retaining the old, ways, which made few demands of them as teachers, as spiritual guides, or as moral examples or agents. -- Alister E. McGrath
I've noticed throughout my long life that people with vested interest in things staying the way they are regularly insist that both change and accountability are impossible. -- Sarah Schulman
Today I want to dispel this myth, because it is absolutely not true .[ that ARV's work ] The pharmaceutical industry and those who have a vested interest in the drug industry fuels this propaganda. -- Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
Newspapers have developed what might be called a vested interest in catastrophe. If they can spot a fight, they play up that fight. If they can uncover a tragedy, they will headline that tragedy. -- Harry Allen Overstreet

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