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• Responding to the question "If Mr. Stalin dies, what will be the effect on international affairs?" That is a good question for you to ask, not a wise question for me to answer.

  Anthony Eden

  Wise, Answers, Good Questions

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• You put two egos together and you've either got a conflict, which is always interesting, or better yet, a love affair.

  Terence McKenna

  Two, Interesting, Ego

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• Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery. But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals; and everywhere life is full of heroism.
  
  Be yourself. Especially, do not feign affection. Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass.

  Max Ehrmann

  Being Yourself, Exercise, Cynical

  Max Ehrmann (2003). “Desiderata: A Survival Guide for Life”, p.9, Andrews McMeel Publishing

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• The idea that business is strictly a numbers affair has always struck me as preposterous. For one thing, I've never been particularly good at numbers, but I think I've done a reasonable job with feelings. And I'm convinced that it is feelings - and feelings alone - that account for the success of the Virgin brand in all of its myriad forms.

  Richard Branson

  Jobs, Thinking, Ideas

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• Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat raggedly on into the future.

  Simon Schama

  Sorting Out, Stories, Truthful

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• A passion to obey Christ is born out of our relationship with him. The more we love him, the more we want him to be a part of our affairs.

  Calvin Miller

  Love, Relationship, Christian

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• Acceptance without proof is the fundamental characteristic of religion. Rejection without proof is the fundamental characteristic of science. In other words, religion has become a matter of the heart and science has become a matter of the mind. This regrettable state of affairs does not reflect the fact that physiologically , one cannot exist without the other. Mind and heart are only different aspects of us.

  Gary Zukav

  Heart, Acceptance, Rejection

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• Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

  Sigourney Weaver

  Heart, Character, Fire

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The concern is over what will happen as strong encryption becomes commonplace with all digital communications and stored data. Right now the use of encryption isn't all that widespread, but that state of affairs is expected to change rapidly.

  Dorothy E. Denning

  Strong, Communication, Data

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• I soon learned that Everest wasn't a private affair. It belonged to many men.

  Tom Hornbein

  Men, Climbing, Everest

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• For the Tintin books were my emotional universe. To read them felt quite simply like being loved: in advance and by an entire world of pure possibility, my future. But to write to the author was to reach out for the lover. Even today, the power of reading one remains visceral: each book acts as a form of transportation, not just to the emotional landscape of this first literary love affair but to very specific memories.

  Luke Davies

  Art, Memories, Reading

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• Putting is a very personal affair.

  Greg Norman

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• Enlightenment or awakening is not the creation of a new state of affairs but the recognition of what already is.

  Alan Watts

  Enlightenment, Awakening, Recognition

  Alan Watts (1973). “This is It, and Other Essays on Zen and Spiritual Experience”, Vintage

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• Since ancient times, the philosophers' secret has always been this: we know that God does not exist, or, at least, if he does, he's utterly indifferent to our individual affairs--but we can't let the rabble know that; it's the fear of God, the threat of divine punishment and the promise of divine reward, that keeps in line those too unsophisticated to work out questions of morality on their own.

  Robert J. Sawyer

  Punishment, Work Out, Secret

  Robert J. Sawyer (2009). “Calculating God”, p.146, Macmillan

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• The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

  Mark Twain

  Rain, Fall, Unjust

  Mark Twain (2015). “Autobiography of Mark Twain, Volume 3: The Complete and Authoritative Edition”, p.221, Univ of California Press

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• For virtue is a light and buoyant thing, and all who live in her way fly like clouds as Isaiah says, and as doves with their young ones; but sin is a heavy affair, as another of the prophets says, sitting upon a talent of lead.

  Gregory of Nyssa

  Christian, Clouds, Light

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• ...the wise providence of God orders our affairs in many different ways and lovingly bestows on each one of us what is appropriate and profitable both for virtuous deeds and the mysteries of faith.

  Gregory Palamas

  Wise, Christian, Order

  Saint Gregory Palamas, Christopher Veniamin, Monastery of St. John the Baptist (Essex, England) (2009). “The homilies”, Mount Thabor Pub

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• Writing is an affair of yearning for great voyages and hauling on frayed ropes.

  Israel Shenker

  Travel, Writing, Rope

  Israel Shenker (1974). “Words and their masters”

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• To ride a bicycle properly is very like a love affair-chiefly it is a matter of faith. Believe you do it, and the thing is done; doubt, and, for the life of you, you cannot.

  H. G. Wells

  Inspirational, Believe, Doubt

  H. G. Wells (2013). “Delphi Collected Works of H. G. Wells (Illustrated)”, p.330, Delphi Classics

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• I hold it to be one of the distinguishing excellences of elective over hereditary successions that the talents which nature has provided in sufficient proportion, should be selected by the society for the govenment of their affairs, rather than that this should be be transmitted through the loins of knaves and fools passing from the debauches of the table to those of the bed.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Nature, Excellence, Bed

  Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1859). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence”, p.466

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• A spiritual process is not a divorce from life. It is an irrevocable love affair with life.

  Jaggi Vasudev

  Spiritual, Yoga, Divorce

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• No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs.

  Harold MacMillan

  Sleep, Men, Should

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• Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

  Arnold Bennett

  Miracle, Raw Materials, Inexplicable

  Arnold Bennett (2013). “How to Live on Twenty-Four Hours a Day: The Secret Edition - Open Your Heart to the Real Power and Magic of Living Faith and Let the Heaven Be in You, Go Deep Inside Yourself and Back, Feel the Crazy and Divine Love and Live for Your Dreams”, p.9, Lulu Press, Inc

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• The longer I live the more convinced I become that God governs in the affairs of men. And have we now forgotten that powerful friend? Or do we imagine we no longer need His assistance.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Powerful, Men, Needs

  Benjamin Franklin, Jared Sparks (1848). “The Life of Benjamin Franklin: Containing the Autobiography, with Notes and a Continuation”, p.514

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• Biblical righteousness is more than a private and personal affair; it includes social righteousness as well....Thus Christians are committed to hunger for righteousness in the whole human community as something pleasing to a righteous God.

  John Stott

  Christian, Biblical, Community

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