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• Now if there is one thing that we do worse than any other nation, it is try and manage somebody else's affairs.

  Will Rogers

  Trying, Manage, Nations

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.17, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Do not meddle in the affairs of Wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Life, Wisdom, Anger

  The Fellowship of the Ring bk. 1, ch. 3 (1954)

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• Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.

  Plautus

  Wise, Men, Advice

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• Involvement in public affairs is a legitimate use of celebrity

  Ron Silver

  Use, Involvement, Public Affairs

  "Q&A : Ron Silver on the Price of Activism". Interview With Barbara Isenberg, articles.latimes.com. June 07, 1992.

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• Marriage is not a simple love affair, it's an ordeal, and the ordeal is the sacrifice of ego to a relationship in which two have become one.

  Joseph Campbell

  Marriage, Wedding, Sacrifice

  Joseph Campbell, Bill Moyers (2011). “The Power of Myth”, p.7, Anchor

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• I think all foreigners should stop interfering in the internal affairs of Iraq. Those who want to come and help are welcome. Those who come to interfere and destroy are not.

  Paul Wolfowitz

  Thinking, Iraq, Want

  Paul Wolfowitz's remarks at the press conference in Mosul, Iraq, July 21, 2003.

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• There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

  Gabriela Sabatini

  Stars, Media, Pops

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• And a musician has to learn to be frugal and to carefully manage financial affairs

  Charlie Byrd

  Musician, Financial, Frugal

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• Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse.

  Allan Massie

  Military, War, Lying

  Allan Massie (2010). “A Question Of Loyalties”, p.152, Canongate Books

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• You are to have implicit confidence in your own ability, knowing that it is the nature of thought to externalize itself in your health and affairs, knowing that you are the thinker.

  Ernest Holmes

  Health, Knowing, Ability

  Ernest Holmes, Michael Beckwith (2010). “How to Change Your Life: An Inspirational, Life-Changing Classic from the Ernest Holmes Library”, p.266, Health Communications, Inc.

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• We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

  Talib Kweli

  Roles, World, Illusion

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• Public opinion shapes our destinies and guides the progress of human affairs.

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Destiny, Progress, Public Opinion

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• Americans are inclined to see the world and foreign affairs in black and white.

  Richard Kerry

  Black And White, World, White

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• Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

  Bradley Whitford

  Stupid, Things To Do, Stupid Things

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• Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Love, Faith, Religious

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• I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Travel, Inspirational Life, Moving

  Travels with a Donkey "Cheylard and Luc" (1879)

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• Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames.

  Thomas Moore

  Love, Marriage, Heartbreak

  "Did You Know?/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I haven't trusted polls since I read that 62% of women had affairs during their lunch hour. I've never met a woman in my life who would give up lunch for sex.

  Erma Bombeck

  Trust, Sex, Giving Up

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• Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

  Plato

  Life, Death, Wisdom

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• Success is a public affair. Failure is a private funeral.

  Rosalind Russell

  Memorable, Funeral, Political

  "Halliwell's Who's Who in the Movies". Book by John Walker (p. 383), 2001.

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• As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Art, Real, Mean

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• Hatred is an affair of the heart; contempt that of the head.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Anger, Philosophical, Heart

  Arthur Schopenhauer, E. F. J. Payne (1974). “Parerga and Paralipomena: Short Philosophical Essays”, p.591, Oxford University Press

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• We really need to get over this love affair with the fetus and start worrying about children.

  Joycelyn Elders

  Children, Worry, Choices

  "Joycelyn Elders is Back!". "The Rush Limbaugh Show" with Rush Limbaugh, www.rushlimbaugh.com. March 13, 2014.

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• When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

  Alfred Kazin

  Talking, Comeback, Love Affair

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• I have always considered that choosing a companion for life was a very important affair and that my happyness or misery in this life depended on the choice.

  Ezra Cornell

  Choices, Important, Misery

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