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• The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

  John Dewey

  Selfishness, Gains, Facts

  John Dewey (2008). “The School and Society”, p.29, Cosimo, Inc.

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  Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Inspirational, Women, Government

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1969). “History of Women Suffrage”, Ayer Co Pub

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• Everything ends this way in France — everything. Weddings, christenings, duels, burials, swindlings, diplomatic affairs — everything is a pretext for a good dinner.

  Jean Anouilh

  Paris, Dinner, Way

  Jean Anouilh (1958). “Jean Anouilh”

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• Photography is a love affair with life.

  Burk Uzzle

  Photography, Photographer, Love Affair

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• It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame!

  Luigi Pirandello

  Women, Looks, Able

  Luigi Pirandello (2016). “Six Characters in Search of an Author”, p.83, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Success breeds conservatism, and that means a love affair with the status quo and an aversion to change.

  Frank Popoff

  Success, Mean, Aversion

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• Gods are nothing without their worshipers; they act on the affairs and the passions of men.

  Janet Morris

  God, Passion, Men

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• I rarely meddled in the cat's personal affairs and she rarely meddled in mine. Neither of us was foolish enough to attribute human emotions to our pets.

  Kinky Friedman

  Cat, Pet, Emotion

  Kinky Friedman (1993). “Kinky Friedman: Three Complete Mysteries : Greenwich Killing Time/a Case of Lone Star/When the Cat's Away”, Outlet

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• If you want sex, have an affair. If you want a relationship, buy a dog.

  Julie Burchill

  Dog, Sex, Want

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• Affairs are loaded with romanticism, morality, mythology, and intense emotions. They're not really about sex, but about pain and fear and the desire to feel alive. They're also about betrayal.

  Emily Browning

  Sex, Pain, Betrayal

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• It is still an unending source of surprise for me how a few scribbles on a blackboard or on a piece of paper can change the course of human affairs.

  Stanislaw Ulam

  Change, Pieces, Paper

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• In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

  Edward Abbey

  Military, Believe, Civilization

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• It is a happy circumstance in human affairs that evils which are not cured in one way will cure themselves in some other.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Evil, Advice, Way

  Thomas Jefferson (2004). “Light and Liberty: Reflections on the Pursuit of Happiness”, p.17, Modern Library

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• Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs

  Alexander Hamilton

  Principles, Opinion, Ill

  Alexander Hamilton, Donald R. Hickey, Connie D. Clark (2006). “Citizen Hamilton: The Wit and Wisdom of an American Founder”, p.112, Rowman & Littlefield

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• There can never be peace in Ireland until the foreign oppressive British presence is removed, leaving all the Irish people as a unit to control their own affairs and determine their own destinies as a sovereign people, free in mind and body, separate and distinct physically, culturally and economically.

  Bobby Sands

  Destiny, People, Leaving

  Bobby Sands (1997). “Bobby Sands: Writings from Prison”, Roberts Rinehart Publishers

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• It's a curious thing, this thing we call civilization...we think it is an affair of epochs, and nations. It's really an affair of individuals. One brother will be civilized and the other a barbarian...All civilization comes through literature now, especially in our country. A Greek got his civilization by talking and looking, and in some measure a Parisian may still do it. But we, who live remote from history and monuments, we must read or we must barbarise.

  William Dean Howells

  Country, Brother, Thinking

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• The management of foreign relations appears to be the most susceptible of abuse of all the trusts committed to a Government, because they can be concealed or disclosed, or disclosed in such parts and at such times as will best suit particular views; and because the body of the people are less capable of judging, and are more under the influence of prejudices, on that branch of their affairs, than of any other. Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.

  James Madison

  Real, Home, Loss

  James Madison, David B. Mattern (1997). “James Madison's "Advice to My Country"”, p.49, University of Virginia Press

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• In the present state of the world, it is evident that the control we have gained of physical energies, heat, light, electricity, etc., without having first secured control of our use of ourselves is a perilous affair. Without the control of our use of ourselves, our use of other things is blind; it may lead to anything.

  John Dewey

  Light, Energy, Use

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, Sidney Ratner (2008). “The Later Works of John Dewey, 1925 - 1953: 1931-1932, Essays, Reviews, and Miscellany”, p.318, SIU Press

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• We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

  Sigmund Freud

  Children, Intellectual, Levels

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• The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

  Karl Marx

  Bourgeoisie, Common, Communist Manifesto

  Karl Marx, Frederick Engels (2005). “The Communist Manifesto: A Road Map to History's Most Important Political Document”, p.145, Haymarket Books

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• We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing

  Thucydides

  Believe, Men, Greek

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• I have gone through the most terrible affair that could possibly happen; only imagine, my shadow has gone mad; I suppose such a poor, shallow brain, could not bear much; he fancies that he has become a real man, and that I am his shadow.

  Hans Christian Andersen

  Real, Men, Mad

  Hans Christian Andersen (1867). “Hans Andersen's fairy tales, a new tr. by mrs. Paull”, p.560

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• There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

  Vannevar Bush

  People, Complicated, Plenty

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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• When an artist uses a conceptual form of art, it means that all of the planning and decisions are made beforehand and the execution is a perfunctory affair. The idea becomes a machine that makes the art.

  Sol LeWitt

  Art, Mean, Ideas

  Sol LeWitt (1995). “Sol Lewitt: critical texts”, Power House Books

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• Every man alone is sincere.
  At the entrance of a second person,
  hypocrisy begins.
  We parry and fend the approach
  of our fellow-man by compliments,
  by gossip, by amusements, by affairs.
  We cover up our thought from him
  under a hundred folds.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Men, Gossip, Hypocrisy

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.1342, Delphi Classics

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