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• Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.

  Varg Vikernes

  Knives, Killing, Blunt

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• If your spirit still looks around at the time of prayer, then it does not yet pray as a monk. You are no better than a man of affairs engaged in a kind of landscape gardening.

  Evagrius Ponticus

  Prayer, Men, Gardening

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• So the major obstacle to the development of new supplies is not geology but what happens above ground: international affairs, politics, investment and technology.

  Daniel Yergin

  Technology, Development, Politics

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• Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Truth, Justice, Summit

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “The Prose Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.464, Рипол Классик

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• When the mathematician says that such and such a proposition is true of one thing, it may be interesting, and it is surely safe. But when he tries to extend his proposition to everything, though it is much more interesting, it is also much more dangerous. In the transition from one to all, from the specific to the general, mathematics has made its greatest progress, and suffered its most serious setbacks, of which the logical paradoxes constitute the most important part. For, if mathematics is to advance securely and confidently, it must first set its affairs in order at home.

  Edward Kasner

  Home, Order, Interesting

  "Mathematics and the Imagination".

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• You can't possibly conduct a proper affair without a lot of deliberating, scheming, speculating, and conniving. It's a delicate balance where the excitement must equal the guilt and sex must be as bright as the future you gamble.

  John Dufresne

  Sex, Balance, Guilt

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.6, W. W. Norton & Company

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• I don't have a life where it's galas, posh affairs. It's me, my dog and a sofa. And a TV.

  Phillip Lim

  Dog, Tvs, Sofas

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• The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)

  Thomas Cahill

  Innovation, Facts, Confession

  Thomas Cahill (2010). “How the Irish Saved Civilization”, p.177, Anchor

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• My personal history would not be disappointing to readers, but it is my own affair which I want to keep to myself. I am in fact in no way more important than is the typesetter for my books, the man who works the mill; no more important than the man who binds my books and the woman who wraps them and the scrubwoman who cleans up the office.

  B. Traven

  Book, Men, Office

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• In the long history of human affairs, common sense doesn’t have the greatest track record.

  Gavin Extence

  Long, Track, Common Sense

  Gavin Extence (2013). “The Universe versus Alex Woods”, p.344, Hachette UK

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• Up to this moment I have been pleased to entrust the government of my affairs to the late Cardinal. It is now time that I govern them myself. You [secretaries and ministers of state] will assist me with your counsels when I ask for them. I request and order you to seal no orders except by my command, . . . I order you not to sign anything, not even a passport . . . without my command; to render account to me personally each day and to favor no one.

  Louis XIV

  Government, Order, Each Day

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• There are a lot of good books around. People don't read any more. It's a sad state of affairs. Reading's the only thing that allows you to use your imagination. When you watch films it's someone else's vision, isn't it?

  Lemmy Kilmister

  Book, Reading, People

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• Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Succeed, Reason, Depends

  "Storia d' Italia". Book by Francesco Guicciardini, 1561.

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• Progress in human affairs is more often a pull than a push, a surging forward of the exceptional man, and the lifting of his duller brethren slowly and painfully to his vantage-ground.

  W. E. B. Du Bois

  Men, Progress, Social Justice

  W. E. B. Du Bois (2014). “The Souls of Black Folk: The Oxford W. E. B. Du Bois”, p.74, Oxford University Press

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• All of man’s work is a bloody business. That fact, today, is considered foolish, affairs are finished cleverly with words alone, and jobs that require effort are avoided. I would like young men to have some understanding of this.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Jobs, Men, Effort

  Miyamoto Musashi, Yamamoto Tsunetomo, Inazo Nitobe (2010). “Honor: Samurai Philosophy of Life - The Essential Samurai Collection; The Book of Five Rings, Hagakure: The Way of the Samurai, Bushido: The Soul of Japan.”, p.53, Bottom of the Hill

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• Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo

  Life Is, Human Life, Humans

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo (2015). “Hagakure: The Book of the Samurai”, p.23, Xist Publishing

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• The great affair, the love affair with life,
  is to live as variously as possible,
  to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred,
  climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sun-struck hills every day.
  Where there is no risk, the emotional terrain is flat and unyielding,
  and, despite all its dimensions, valleys, pinnacles, and detours,
  life will seem to have none of its magnificent geography, only a length.
  It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery,
  but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.

  Diane Ackerman

  Life, Beautiful, Country

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• As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to
  have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs,
  business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger
  community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as
  possible and as many activities as possible.

  Dalai Lama

  Community, Requirements, Interest

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.191, Penguin Books India

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• And so class will some day supplant race in world affairs. Race war will then be merely a side-show to the gigantic class war which will be waged in the big tent we call the world.

  Ralph Bunche

  War, Race, Class

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• I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism.

  Alexander Dubcek

  Party, Thinking, Years

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• It was an American who said that while a Frenchman's truth was akin to a straight line, a Welshman's truth was more in the nature of a curve, and it is a fact that Welsh affairs are entangled always in parabola, double-meaning and implication. This makes for a web-like interest.

  Jan Morris

  Curves, Lines, Facts

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• I have not contended for Democrat, Republican, Protestant or Baptist for an agent. I have worked for freedom, I have laboured to give my race a voice in the affairs of the nation.

  Sarah Winnemucca

  Race, Voice, Giving

  Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins (2015). “The Newspaper Warrior: Sarah Winnemucca Hopkins's Campaign for American Indian Rights, 1864-1891”, p.252, U of Nebraska Press

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• No department or locality may, or will be allowed to, interfere in the affairs which should be administered by [the SAR] on its own.

  Jiang Zemin

  May, Should, Locality

  "Hong Kong's new leaders offer reassuring words". www.cnn.com. July 1, 1997.

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• Your law may be perfect, your knowledge of human affairs may be such as to enable you to apply it with wisdom and skill, and yet without individual acquaintance with men, their haunts and habits, the pursuit of the profession becomes difficult, slow, and expensive.

  William Dunbar

  Men, Law, Skills

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• Good content is the stuff of love affairs.

  Tom Webster

  Marketing, Stuff, Love Affair

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