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• A kid thinks her mother is just that -- hers. A mother is also a woman, an independent being, who doesn't want to be reminded by anyone, child or otherwise, of her tree-trunk thighs. The world made women's private lives a public affair to people who knew them and even people who didn't.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Mother, Children, Kids

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• It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species of primate, a biological phenomenon dominated by biological rules, like any other species. Human nature is no more than one particular kind of animal nature. Agreed, the human species is an extraordinary animal; but all other species are also extraordinary animals, each in their own way, and the scientific man-watcher can bring many fresh insights to the study of human affairs if he can retain this basic attitude of evolutionary humility.

  Desmond Morris

  Attitude, Humility, Men

  Desmond Morris (1977). “Manwatching: A Field Guide to Human Behavior”

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• RTE was set up by legislation as an instrument of public policy, and, as such is responsible to the government. The government have overall responsibility for its conduct, and especially the obligation to ensure that its programmes do not offend against the public interest or conflict with national policy as defined in legislation. To this extent the government rejected the view that RTE should be, either generally or in regard to its current affairs programmes, completely independent of government supervision.

  Sean Lemass

  Independent, Responsibility, Government

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• We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

  Derek Prince

  Factors, Universe

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• All love affairs are tragedies in the end unless the lovers die at the same moment.

  Katharine Kerr

  Tragedy, Lovers, Moments

  "Snare". Book by Katharine Kerr, 2003.

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• In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. All things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not to devour the children that he generates; all the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

  Richard de Bury

  Children, Book, Law

  Richard De Bury (2006). “The Love of Books: The Philobiblon of R”, p.9, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Don’t flirt, have sex, or engage in emotional affairs with your friends’ significant others. This shouldn’t need to be said, but it needs to be said. That significant other is an asshole, and you don’t want to be involved with an asshole who’s used goods. If you want to be with an asshole, get a fresh asshole of your very own. They are abundant.

  Roxane Gay

  Sex, Flirting, Emotional

  "Bad Feminist: Essays". Book by Roxane Gay, August 5, 2014.

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• It is possible to speak with our heart directly. Most ancient cultures know this. We can actually converse with our heart as if it were a good friend. In modern life we have become so busy with our daily affairs and thoughts that we have lost this essential art of taking time to converse with our heart.

  Jack Kornfield

  Art, Good Friend, Essentials

  Jack Kornfield (2008). “A Path With Heart: The Classic Guide Through The Perils And Promises Of Spiritual Life”, p.12, Random House

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• Here's what my love affair with quotations has taught me: the more you focus on words that uplift you, the more you embody the ideas contained in those words.

  Oprah Winfrey

  Uplifting, Ideas, Focus

  FaceBook post by Oprah Winfrey from Aug 15, 2011

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• In human affairs, no single person, organisation or social formation ever has a final or an absolutely correct position. It is through conversation, debate and critical discussion that we approach positions that may provide workable solutions.

  Nelson Mandela

  Finals, May, Debate

  Nelson Mandela (2011). “Nelson Mandela By Himself: The Authorised Book of Quotations”, p.356, Pan Macmillan

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• Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.

  John Calvin

  Doctrine, Tongue

  John Calvin (2012). “On the Christian Life (Annotated Edition)”, p.17, Jazzybee Verlag

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• We do not say that a man who takes no interest in public affairs is a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.

  Pericles

  Business, Men, Mind

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• Our culture highlights all the trouble, all the drama, all the affairs and all the junk. Do not believe for a minute that any of that reflects reality. That does not have to be your future. The handwriting is not written on the wall.

  Andy Stanley

  Wall, Drama, Believe

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• Kindness is not an illusion and violence is not a rule. The true resting state of human affairs is not represented by a man hacking his neighbor into pieces with a machete. That is a sick aberration. No, the true state of human affairs is life as it ought to be lived.

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Kindness, Men, Sick

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.130, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Many a young person tells me he wants to be a writer. I always encourage such people, but I also explain that there's a big difference between being a writer and writing. In most cases these individuals are dreaming of wealth and fame, not the long hours alone at the typewriter. You've got to want to write, I say to them, not want to be a writer. The reality is that writing is a lonely, private and poor-paying affair. For every writer kissed by fortune, there are thousands more whose longing is never requited. Even those who succeed often know long periods of neglect and poverty. I did.

  Alex Haley

  Dream, Lonely, Writing

  "Chicken Soup for the Soul at Work". Book by Jack Canfield, Maida Rogerson, Mark Victor Hansen, and Martin Rutte, 1996.

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• I have always felt that public, commercial and community organisations should be as open as possible about their affairs. They need to be accountable to their owners, their customers, their members and communities and other interest groups.

  Laisenia Qarase

  Community, Groups, Needs

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• God, Most High, is the very one who Himself affirms His unity by the tongue of whatever of His creatures He wishes. If He Himself affirms His unity by my tongue, it is He and His affair. Otherwise, brother, I have nothing to do with affirming God's Unity.

  Mansur Al-Hallaj

  Brother, Unity, Wish

  "Words of Ecstasy in Sufism". Book by Carl W. Ernst, p. 45, 1985.

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• The Providence that watches over the affairs of men works out of their mistakes, at times, a healthier issue than could have been accomplished by their wisest forethought.

  James Anthony Froude

  Mistake, Men, Issues

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, 1895.

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• You never find friends them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

  Willis Lamb

  Advice, Deference, Following

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• It is not love, or morality, or international law that determines the outcome of world affairs, but the changing distribution of organized force

  William Woodruff

  Law, World, Outcomes

  William Woodruff (1998). “A Concise History of the Modern World: 1500 to the Present”, p.1, Springer

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• My longest love affair: with a book.

  Rebecca Mead

  Book, Love Affair

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• Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.

  Tamar Myers

  Men, Saws, Holding On

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• I physically need to make art. Art isn't just a hobby for me. It's not something that I like. It's an intense passion, an ecstatic love affair, with as much turmoil, frustration, exasperation and need as a forbidden liaison.

  Sarah Lacy

  Art, Passion, Frustration

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• Writing a poem is like having an affair, a one-night stand; a short story is a romance, a relationship; a novel is a marriage-one has to be cunning, devise compromises, and make sacrifices.

  Amos Oz

  Writing, Sacrifice, Night

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• Before a person can achieve the kind of life he wants, he must think, act, walk, talk and conduct himself in all of his affairs as would the person he wishes to become.

  Zig Ziglar

  Inspirational, Life, Change

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