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• I've never had my heart broken. It's a very sad state of affairs. I think everybody should have their heart broken. I don't think it says anything good about me at all.

  Sally Field

  Heart, Thinking, Should Have

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• Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell said recently that Hollywood needs to re-evaluate what they're doing because movies these days are all filled with gay sex and extramarital affairs. And I thought, 'Have fun in Congress then.

  Craig Ferguson

  Sex, Fun, Gay

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• The great decisions of government cannot be dictated by the concerns of religious factions. We have succeeded for 205 years in keeping the affairs of state separate from the uncompromising idealism of religious groups and we mustn't stop now. To retreat from that separation would violate the principles of conservatism and the values upon which the framers built this democratic republic.

  Barry Goldwater

  Religious, Government, Years

  "Excerpts From Goldwater Remarks". Remarks in the Congressional Record, www.nytimes.com. September 15, 1981.

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• How important are money management and finances in marriage and family affairs? Tremendously. The American Bar Association recently indicated that 89 percent of all divorces could be traced to quarrels and accusations over money. Another study estimated that 75 percent of all divorces result from clashes over finances. Some professional counselors indicated that four out of every five families wrestle with serious money problems.

  Jeffrey R. Holland

  Divorce, Important, Four

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• In the old legend the wise men finally boiled down the history of mortal affairs into a single phrase: 'This too will pass.'

  Benjamin Graham

  Wise, Men, Phrases

  Benjamin Graham (1959). “The Intelligent Investor: A Book of Practical Counsel”

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• By obliging men to turn their attention to other affairs than their own, it rubs off that private selfishness which is the rust of society.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Men, Law, Selfishness

  Alexis de Tocqueville (1863). “Democracy in America”, p.364

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• Contentment should be the hallmark of my life, as I put my affairs in the hands of God.

  W. Phillip Keller

  Hands, Contentment, Hallmark

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• A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It is an illusion to think that States can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies.

  Hans Tietmeyer

  Thinking, Europe, Taxation

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• I have often heard it said that the United States is isolated and is not interested in European affairs. I assure you that this is not the case.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Country, United States, Said

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• An Athenian citizen does not neglect his state because he takes care of his own household; even those of us who are engaged in business have a very fair idea of politics. We do not regard a man who takes no interest in public affairs as harmless. We do not say that such a man 'minds his own business'. Rather we say he has no business here at all.

  Pericles

  Dark, Men, Ideas

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• I think every doctor should know the shocking state of affairs...We discovered they (the FDA) failed to effectively regulate the large manufacturers and powerful interests while recklessly persecuting the small manufacturers. ...(The FDA is) harassing (small) manufacturers and doctors...(and) betrays the public trust.

  Edward V. Long

  Powerful, Dark, Thinking

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• ...by serving as the dominant power in the Gulf, WE maintain a 'stranglehold' over the economies of other nations. This gives us extraordinary leverage in world affairs, and explains to some degree why states like Japan, Britain, France, and Germany - states that are even more dependent on Persian Gulf oil than we are - defer to Washington on major international issues (like Iraq) even when they disagree with us.

  Michael Klare

  Usa, Oil, Iraq

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• The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Men, Firsts, He Man

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• The true theory of our Constitution is surely the wisest and best, that the States are independent as to everything within themselves, and united as to everything respecting foreign affairs. Let the General Government be reduced to foreign concerns only, and let our affairs be disentangled from those of all other nations, except as to commerce, which the merchants will manage the better, the more they are left free to manage for themselves, and our General Government may be reduced to a very simple organization, and a very inexpensive one; a few plain duties to be performed by a few servants.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Independent, Simple, Government

  Thomas Jefferson (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.331

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• Thou shalt not answer questionnaires Or quizzes upon world affairs, Nor with compliance Take any test. Thou shalt not sit with statisticians nor commit A social science.

  W. H. Auden

  Math, Tests, Answers

  W.H. Auden (2016). “Canción de cuna y otros poemas”, p.219, DEBOLS!LLO

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• What meaning has such meditation? There is no meaning; there is no utility. But in that meditation there is a movement of great ecstasy which is not to be confounded with pleasure. It is this ecstasy which gives to the eye, to the brain and to the heart, the quality of innocency. Without seeing life as something totally new, it is a routine, a boredom, a meaningless affair. So meditation is of the greatest importance. It opens the door to the incalculable, to the measureless.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Heart, Eye, Doors

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• The surest way to make ourselves crazy is to get involved in other people's business, and the quickest way to become sane and happy is to tend to our own affairs.

  Melody Beattie

  Inspirational, Crazy, People

  Melody Beattie (2013). “Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself”, p.113, Hazelden Publishing

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• Hippocrates is an excellent geometer but a complete fool in everyday affairs.

  Aristotle

  Science, Engineering, Everyday

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• The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

  Arthur Hays Sulzberger

  Mean, Should, Internals

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• Of my private life I have nothing to say: it does not concern others. I have always had little liking for autobiographies and have no interest in anyone's affairs. History proper and novels hold no attractions for me except insofar as, I can discern there, as within our immortal Revolution, the adventures of the mind.

  Pierre-Joseph Proudhon

  Adventure, Mind, Doe

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• They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.

  Carl Hubbell

  Stars, Winning, Player

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• Letter to the committee in charge of the celebration of the centennial of the American Constitution. I have always regarded that Constitution as the most remarkable work known to me in modern times to have been produced by the human intellect, at a single stroke (so to speak), in its application to political affairs.

  William E. Gladstone

  Work, Political, Letters

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• Love affair. Doesn't that sound so middle-aged? And also ill-fated. Like ill-fated is an understood prefix to love affair. Well, ill-fated is fine, as long as it's a meaty and fraught ill-fated love affair, not a pale and insipid one.

  Laini Taylor

  Love, Long, Age

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• Somehow she knew he would take a love affair very seriously indeed. Once that pinpoint focus was engaged, he would throw himself body and soul into the liaison. In the the woman he decided to take as a lover. A shiver ran through her at the thought. To be the object of such ferocious regard was an alluring prospect, but it also gave her pause.

  Elizabeth Hoyt

  Love, Focus, Soul

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• We stand committed to the proposition that freedom is no half-and-half affair. If the average citizen is guaranteed equal opportunity in the polling place, he must have equal opportunity in the market place.

  Franklin D. Roosevelt

  Freedom, Opportunity, Average

  Franklin D. Roosevelt (1995). “The Essential Franklin Delano Roosevelt”, Gramercy

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