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The affairs of life embrace a multitude of interests, and he who reasons in any one of them, without consulting the rest, is a visionary unsuited to control the business of the world.

— James F. Cooper

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

A man's prime interest in life must be his work.

— Laurence Olivier

Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life.

— Jose Marti

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

— James Dean

He works his business and manipulates and keeps himself in front of the world.

— Marla Maples

In a world of global dependencies with no corresponding global polity and few tools of global justice, the rich of the world are free to pursue their own interests while paying no attention to the rest.

— Zygmunt Bauman

Every man builds his world in his own image. He has the power to choose, but no power to escape the necessity of choice.

— Ayn Rand

A man lives not only his personal life, as an individual, but also, consciously or unconsciously, the life of his epoch and his contemporaries.

— Thomas Mann

One person has a responsibility not just for himself but for inter-relationships with the existences of others and the world.

— Haskell Wexler

✗Opposing Perspectives

He who lives only to benefit himself confers on the world a benefit when he dies.

— Tertullian

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty, to interpret it is his problem, and to express it his dedication.

— Marlon Brando