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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Will, Greed, Nerd

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

  Romano Prodi

  Real, Europe, World

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• In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Men, Differences, Individualism

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.80, Anza Publishing

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• Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

  Tony Snow

  Rip, People, Giving

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• The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

  John Dingell

  Mistake, Leaving, Made

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Succeed, Planning, Depends

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• I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  I Realized, Public Affairs

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• Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Credit, Kind, Interdependence

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.37, Rutgers University Press

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• Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, President

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• I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

  Laurence Sterne

  Moon, Sin, Shame

  1768 A Sentimental Journey,'The Monk, Calais'.

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• Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Wife, Alarms, Literature

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• No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.

  Umar

  Destiny, Worry, Outcomes

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• Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

  Mason Cooley

  Love Affair, Moodiness

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• If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

  Andre Breton

  Love, Desperate, States

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• He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Years, Would Be, Three

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• Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

  Emily Carr

  Bored, Twenties, Eternal Love

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.199, D & M Publishers

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• If people see me having dinner with a beautiful woman, they immediately believe that I'm having a love affair with her. Of course that's rubbish. I'm not a playboy!

  George Clooney

  Beautiful, Believe, People

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• The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Political, Phrases, Politics

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.4987, Delphi Classics

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• Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Obscure, Humans, Various

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “Essential works of Erasmus”

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• I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

  Henry Ford

  God, Spiritual, Work

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• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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• The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

  Hedy Lamarr

  Pay, Feels, Performers

  Hedy Lamarr (1966). “Ecstasy and me: my life as a woman”

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• Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.

  Christopher Morley

  Laughter, Humor, Two

  CHRISTOPHER MORLEY (1923). “INWARD HO!”

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• This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.

  Alice Paul

  Different, World, Might

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• I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff.

  Tim Robbins

  Care, Stuff, Clinton

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