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• After the revolution of 1979, Iran embarked on a policy of sectarianism. Iran began a policy of expanding its revolution, of interfering with the affairs of its neighbors, a policy of assassinating diplomats and of attacking embassies. Iran is responsible for a number of terrorist attacks in the Kingdom, it is responsible for smuggling explosives and drugs into Saudi Arabia. And Iran is responsible for setting up sectarian militias in Iraq, Pakistan, Afghanistan and Yemen, whose objective is to destabilize those countries.

  Adel al-Jubeir

  Country, Iran, Iraq

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• None of what we [as country] have done is credited. None of the good works. Our foreign affairs budget, foreign aid budget, none of it is ever thanked.

  Rush Limbaugh

  Country, Done, Good Work

  "America Leads the World in Goodness". "The Rush Limbaugh Show", www.rushlimbaugh.com. February 18, 2016.

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• Conscious experience as such is an exclusively internal affair: Once all functional properties of your brain are fixed, the character of subjective experience is determined as well.

  Thomas Metzinger

  Character, Brain, Determined

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• There is no difference in a country between military, economic, and political affairs. It's useful for Business Insider to divide things that way. That's useful for a college program. But a country is a country. How do you understand China's economy without China's army? If you take these all into account you're ready to explain a question like, "How come the US doesn't have a debt problem?"

  George Friedman

  Country, Military, Army

  Source: www.businessinsider.com

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• There was great political uncertainty in South Asia at the time of the Buddha. The older small tribal societies were cracking up and gave way to bigger states. There was much more trade and travel going on than before. To people in the cities the experience of living in a small place where you knew everyone and governed your affairs by consensual democracy had been lost.

  Pankaj Mishra

  Cities, People, Political

  "'The Buddha' & the End of Human Suffering / Pankaj Mishra in Kathmandu, Nepal". Interview with Felix Holmgren, The Liberator Magazine, Volume 7.2, Issue 22, www.livefromplanetearth.org. 2008.

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• They [root causes of terror] come out of a long dialectic of U.S. involvement in the affairs of the Islamic world, the oil-producing world, the Arab world, the Middle East - those areas that are considered to be essential to U.S. interests and security.

  Edward Said

  Islamic, Oil, Roots

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• It is totally unacceptable for a government to interfere in the internal affairs of another government and send aid, money, and weapons, to the people who are against a certain regime in another country.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Government, People

  "Iran’s Nobel Peace Laureate Speaks From Exile". Interview with Bryan Schatz, www.motherjones.com. February 29, 2016.

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• One person told me that Christians believe in a king. We believe in a King Jesus who oversees the affairs of mankind. Maybe we're reaching for an earthly king.

  Max Lucado

  Christian, Jesus, Kings

  "Pastor Max Lucado Baffled Over Evangelical Trump Supporters". "All Things Considered" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 6, 2016.

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• You're not the same after, say, an incredible love affair that went very well or a love affair that went bad. Or something that happens to your health, or something that happened to somebody else's health, that is close to you. Or something that happens professionally.

  Antonio Damasio

  Incredibles, Wells, Happened

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• There is a certain imperiousness, in the manner of speaking and in actions, which makes itself felt everywhere, and soon wins attention and respect. This commanding quality is useful in all affairs, and even for obtaining what we ask for.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Respect, Winning, Quality

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• It must be admitted that the tendency of the human race toward liberty is largely thwarted, especially in France. This is greatly due to a fatal desire-learned from the teachings of antiquity-that our writers on public affairs have in common: They desire to set themselves above mankind in order to arrange, organize, and regulate it according to their fancy.

  Frederic Bastiat

  Teaching, Learning, Race

  Frederic Bastiat (2006). “The Law”, p.41, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Gardening is a cooperative affair. I am a part of a neighborhood in which plants, dirt, rocks and a human family participate collectively in a love affair with place.

  Jim Nollman

  Love, Rocks, Gardening

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• When you are but slightly involved in the world, the effect the world has on you is also slight. When you are deeply enmeshed in affairs, you machinations also deepen. So for enlightened people simplicity is better than refinement, and freedom is better than punctiliousness.

  Zicheng Hong

  People, Simplicity, Taoism

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• Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?

  Zicheng Hong

  House, Taoism, Talent

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• Many people are now starting to experience a new energy filtering down through the density of mass consciousness. This energy stirs your spirit to find freedom of expression and amplifies the voice within your heart. This new planetary energy facilitates people in thinking more about the heart and its potentials in all human affairs.

  Doc Childre

  Heart, Thinking, Voice

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• We need to transcend our thoughts and desires to truly understand philosophy and the universe as a whole. However, in our everyday life, we deal with the micro universe and with our own affairs. Therefore we need to use our brain. To practice Tao is not to rid yourself of all thoughts. There are actually more occasions when you would use your true intention instead of non-desire.

  Henry Chang

  Philosophy, Practice, Brain

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• Now no one can deny the fact that whatever is the state of the affairs in the country, you did not have the army controlling the country and you have a pluralistic society anyway.

  Tariq Ramadan

  Country, Army, Facts

  Source: dinmerican.wordpress.com

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• The position of EU commissioner for economic and monetary affairs could be combined with the office of Euro Group chairman. That job would be a great challenge for anyone who assumed it. On the one hand, he would have to make proposals. On the other hand, he would have to negotiate compromises with his European counterparts.

  Jean-Claude Juncker

  Jobs, Hands, Office

  "Europe Will Either Succeed or Fail Together". Interview with Michael Sauga and Christoph Schult, www.spiegel.de. July 16, 2012.

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• I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.

  Truman Capote

  Mean, Good Friend, Very Good

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• These Muslim Brotherhood fronts - the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Muslim Public Affairs Council, the Islamic Society of North America - we need accountability for what these groups are doing and need to understand that in many ways they are as toxic and dangerous for America as are their violent counterparts, which have exactly the same goal that they do, which is imposing the Shariah doctrine on all of us.

  Frank Gaffney

  Islamic, America, Goal

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• Recently, [Diana Wilson] went on a hunger strike to protest Dow Chemical's refusal to accept responsibility for a 1984 chemical disaster in Bhopal, India, caused by a company they now own, Union Carbide. In the past, Diane's hunger strikes had been lonely affairs, but this time friends and co-conspirators from around the country took turns joining her on her flatbed truck under the hot Texas sun, greeting Dow workers as they entered the plant.

  Frances Moore Lappé

  Country, Lonely, Responsibility

  Source: www.yesmagazine.org

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• I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.

  Jill Stein

  Country, Thinking, Kind

  Source: www.justicenewsnetwork.com

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• We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

  Max Lucado

  Good God, Mankind

  "Max Lucado: 2016 Election Has 'Sucked the Joy' Out of Americans" by Michael Gryboski, www.christianpost.com. October 18, 2016.

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• Religious people should be very active if they believe that the world belongs to God, and politics is a very important part of the world, then they must participate in political affairs because they are alive. And if they don't act neither as the leaven or the salt or the light, then things can go horribly badly wrong.

  Desmond Tutu

  Religious, Believe, Light

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• That was an extremely unhelpful thing for Bill Shorten to say because those of us - and as the Attorney-General I've been closely involved in this along with my colleague Nigel Scullion, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs - what we have been trying to do for some years now, throughout the life of the Coalition Government in fact, is to bring the Australian people on a journey with us - conservative Australians as well as more progressive Australians, to persuade them that it is a seemly and fitting and decent and appropriate thing to recognise the first Australians in the Constitution.

  George Brandis

  Journey, Years, Government

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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