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• The Queens Of The Stone Age have teamed up with multimedia wizard brain Liam Lynch to make the video for 'Burn The Witch' , a home-made affair that's just in time for Halloween. For the band, playing both the roles of cast and crew paid ginormous dividends, in the form of a video that cuts the heads off all contemporaries .

  Joshua Homme

  Queens, Halloween, Home

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• And what physicians say about disease is applicable here: that at the beginning a disease is easy to cure but difficult to diagnose; but as time passes, not having been recognized or treated at the outset, it becomes easy to diagnose but difficult to cure. The same thing occurs in affairs of state; for by recognizing from afar the diseases that are spreading in the state (which is a gift given only to the prudent ruler), they can be cured quickly; but when, not having been recognized, they are not recognized and are left to grow to the extent that everyone recognizes them, there is no longer any cure.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Physicians, Disease, Afar

  "Tact is one of the first of mental virtues, the absence of which is frequently fatal to the best of talents. Without denying that it is a talent of itself, it will suffice if we admit that it supplies the place of many talents".

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• Besides what has been said, people are fickle by nature; and it is a simple to convince them of something but difficult to hold them in that conviction; and, therefore, affairs should be managed in such a way that when they no longer believe, they can be made to believe by force.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Believe, Simple, People

  Niccolo Machiavelli (1979). “The Portable Machiavelli”, p.67, Penguin

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• In the affairs of this world, poverty alone is without envy.

  Giovanni Boccaccio

  Envy, World, Poverty

  Giovanni Boccaccio (1972). “The Decameron”, Penguin Books

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• Poetry is an affair of sanity, of seeing things as they are.

  Philip Larkin

  Sanity, Poetry Is, Seeing

  "Required Writing-Miscellaneous Pieces 1955-1982". Book by Philip Larkin, 1984.

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• Power attracts the corruptible. Suspect all who seek it ... We should grant power over our affairs only to those who are reluctant to hold it and then only under conditions that increase that reluctance.

  Frank Herbert

  Increase, Should, Reluctance

  Frank Herbert (1986). “Chapterhouse: Dune”, Berkley Trade

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• The withdrawal of a State from a league has no revolutionary or insurrectionary characteristic. The government of the State remains unchanged as to all internal affairs. It is only its external or confederate relations that are altered. To term this action of a Sovereign a 'rebellion' is a gross abuse of language.

  Jefferson Davis

  Government, League, Abuse

  Jefferson Davis (1971). “The rise and fall of the Confederate Government”, Peter Smith Pub Inc

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• The idea of any social obligation ... just the idea of it embarasses my thoughts for a day, and sometimes it's since the day before that I worry, and don't sleep well, and the real affair, when it happens, is absolutely insignificant and justifies nothing; and the case repeats itself and I never learn to learn.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Real, Sleep, Ideas

  "The Book of Disquiet". Book by Fernando Pessoa, 1982.

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• Keep from prying into other people's affairs, for such prying gives occasion for slander, judgment, and other grievous sins. Why do you need to be concerned about others? Know and examine your own self.

  Tikhon of Zadonsk

  Truth, Self, People

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• Life is an affair of people not of places. But for me, life is an affair of places and that is the trouble.

  Wallace Stevens

  People, Life Is, Trouble

  Wallace Stevens (2011). “Opus Posthumous: Poems, Plays, Prose”, p.240, Vintage

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• Behave when away from home as though you were in the presence of an honored guest. Employ the people as though you were assisting at an important sacrifice. Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no feelings of opposition to you, whether it is the affairs of a state that you are handling or the affairs of a family.

  Confucius

  Home, Sacrifice, People

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• The upheavals of adolescence silenced 'A Christmas Carol' for a few years. I became a firebrand atheist. Christmas - humbug! Too commercial! Then I became an agnostic. Christmas was a pro-forma affair, basically a chore. Buy mother a book, dad a new tie, my brother and sister small gifts. Pretend thanks for the fountain pens and shirts I received.

  Whitley Strieber

  Christmas, Mother, Brother

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• I have never had sexual relations with Monica Lewinsky. I've never had an affair with her.

  William J. Clinton

  Stupid, Humorous, Dumb

  "Clinton Deposition In Jones Case: 'I've Never Had An Affair With Her'". www.cnn.com.

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  Idiot, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Powerful, Hatred, Tribes

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Large Bold Edition”, p.128, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

  Jude Law

  Regret, Nannies, Action

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• If America is to survive, we must elect more God-centered men and women to public office; individuals who will seek Divine guidance in the affairs of state.

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Men, Divine Guidance

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• Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present.

  E. W. Howe

  Art, Moving, Book

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• Every woman while she would be ready to die of shame if surprised in the act of generation, nonetheless carries her pregnancy without a trace of shame and indeed with a kind of pride. The reason is that pregnancy is in a certain sense a cancellation of the guilt incurred by coitus; thus coitus bears all the shame and disgrace of the affair, while pregnancy, which is so intimately associated with it, stays pure and innocent and is indeed to some extent sacred.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Pregnancy, Pride, Guilt

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• To be guilty of the sin of prayerlessness is to be guilty of the worst form of practical atheism. It is actually saying we can get along without His help while the evidence is very clear on every hand that we cannot. Could it be that the sin of prayerlessness steams from our unbelief that he is a living God who exercises direct influence on the affairs of men?

  Bruce Willis

  Prayer, Exercise, Men

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• A homemade affair that's just in time for Halloween.

  Joshua Homme

  Halloween, Homemade

  "Queens Of The Stone Age Enlist Army Of Skeletons For 'Witch'" by James Montgomery, www.mtv.com. October 11, 2005.

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• There are no small steps in great affairs.

  Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

  Political, Small Steps, Campaigns

  Jean François Paul de Gondi de Retz (1817). “Memoirs of the Cardinal de Retz: containing, the particulars of his own life, with the most secret transactions of the French court and the civil wars”, p.394

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• For my part, I am very much more afraid of the man who does a bad thing and does not know it is bad than of the man who does a bad thing and knows it is bad; because I think that in public affairs stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because harder to fight and dislodge.

  Woodrow Wilson

  Fighting, Government, Stupidity

  "The New Freedom".

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• What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.

  Owen D. Young

  Moving, Heart, New Day

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• When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, "for" and "against" are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.

  Zhuangzi

  Heart, Men, Shoes

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• Modern multiple divorce is rooted in the fact that many are seeking in human relationships what human relationships can never give. Why do they have multiple divorce, instead of merely promiscuous affairs? Because they are seeking more than merely sexual relationship.

  Francis Schaeffer

  God, Divorce, Giving

  Francis Schaeffer (2016). “The Francis Schaeffer Collection: True Spirituality / He Is There and He Is Not Silent”, p.213, NavPress

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