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• Americans shouldn't start a military attack, and they shouldn't bombard Iran, and they shouldn't interfere with the internal affairs of the country. And the Americans should pay more attention to the human right issues in Iran.

  Shirin Ebadi

  Country, Military, Attention

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• If we insist that public life be reserved for those whose personal history is pristine, we are not going to get paragons of virtue running our affairs. We will get the very rich, who contract out the messy things in life the very dull, who have nothing to hide and nothing to show and the very devious, expert at covering their tracks and ambitious enough to risk their discovery.

  Charles Krauthammer

  Running, Discovery, Things In Life

  Charles Krauthammer (1985). “Cutting edges: making sense of the eighties”, Random House (NY)

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• In the whole round of human affairs little is so fatal to peace as misunderstanding.

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster

  Troubled Relationship, Littles, Complicated Relationship

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• This sordid affair has become an unacceptable distraction for Representative Weiner, his family, his constituents and the House - and for the good of all, he should step aside and address those things that should be most important - his and his family's well-being.

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz

  House, Important, Addresses

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• I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs.

  Pete Seeger

  Religious, Philosophical, Political

  "The day Pete Seeger faced down the HUAC as though, well, he had a hammer" by Scott Martelle, www.latimes.com. January 29, 2014.

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• There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.

  William Shakespeare

  Life, Taken, Opportunity

  'Julius Caesar' (1599) act 4, sc. 3, l. 215

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• Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Trust, Sarcastic, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow

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• Politicians also have a love affair with the 'small business exemption.' Too much paperwork? Too heavy a burden? Not enough time? Just exempt small businesses from the rule. It sounds so pro-growth. Instead it's an admission that the costs of a regulation just can't be justified.

  John Sununu

  Growth, Enough Time, Cost

  First Speech by Anne Ruston as representative of South Australia, www.anneruston.com.au. October 10, 2012.

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• If you lead a country like Britain, a strong country, a country which has taken a lead in world affairs in good times and in bad, a country that is always reliable, then you have to have a touch of iron about you.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Country, Strong, Taken

  "The secret of outstanding leadership" by Lisa Bachelor, www.theguardian.com. January 15, 2010.

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• I maintain, despite the moment's evidence against the claim, that we are born and grow up with a fondness for each other, and we have genes for that. We can be talked out of it, for the genetic message is like a distant music, and some of us are hard-of-hearing. Societies are noisy affairs, drowning out the sound of ourselves and our connection.

  Lewis Thomas

  Growing Up, Hearing, Messages

  Lewis Thomas (1984). “Late Night Thoughts on Listening to Mahler's Ninth Symphony”, Bantam

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• When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

  Judith Viorst

  Women, Lying, Dinner

  Judith Viorst (2014). “When Did I Stop Being Twenty and Other Injustices”, p.96, Simon and Schuster

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• As a nation we have the right to decide our own affairs, to mould our own future. This does not pose any danger to anybody. Our nation is fully aware of the responsibility for its own fate in the complicated situation of the contemporary world.

  Lech Walesa

  Responsibility, Fate, Doe

  Lech Walesa's Nobel lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 11, 1983.

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• I'm very crafty! One time I made a television set out of a cardboard box - Everybody thought it was a lark! This was the beginning of a love affair with the arts.

  Emma Watson

  Art, Larks, Television

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

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• Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

  Rebecca West

  Love, Real, Writing

  "The Art of Scepticism" (1952)

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• We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

  Marianne Williamson

  Running, Children, Civilization

  "Gabrielle Bernstein Interviews Marianne Williamson: Sister Giant". Interview with Gabrielle Bernstein, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 16, 2012.

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• If there is one lesson for U.S. foreign policy from the past 10 years, it is surely that military intervention can seem simple but is in fact a complex affair with the potential for unintended consequences.

  Fareed Zakaria

  Military, Past, Simple

  "The Libyan Conundrum". content.time.com. March 10, 2011.

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• I love travelling and going on wildlife safaris. I have an interest in astronomy. I like reading on current affairs, business and science. I love doing nothing if I can help it.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Reading, Doing Nothing, Wildlife

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• You bring to chess facets of your personality and what you are. I have interests other than chess, like music and world and current affairs. I also have many friends around the world with whom I like to keep in touch.

  Viswanathan Anand

  Personality, World, Chess

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• America is an empire. I hope you know that now. All empires, by definition, are bumbling, shambolic, bullying, bureaucratic affairs, as certain of the rightness of their cause in infancy, as they are corrupted by power in their dotage.

  Felix Dennis

  Bullying, America, Definitions

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• Every congresswoman surely endures the same strains that drive some of her male colleagues to have affairs: lots of travel, families far away, heady work that makes a domestic routine seem distant and boring. But the stakes are much higher for women, because they are still judged by a different standard.

  Hanna Rosin

  Males, Different, Routine

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• A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

  David Mitchell

  Love, Book, Half

  David Mitchell (2008). “Cloud Atlas: A Novel”, p.64, Random House

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• Science is the search for the truth--it is not a game in which one tries to beat his opponent, to do harm to others. We need to have the spirit of science in international affairs, to make the conduct of international affairs the effort to find the right solution, the just solution of international problems, and not an effort by each nation to get the better of other nations, to do harm to them when it is possible. I believe in morality, in justice, in humanitarianism.

  Linus Pauling

  Truth, Believe, Games

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• When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?

  Virginia Woolf

  Stars, Matter, Seems

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “Night and Day”, p.170, Virginia Woolf

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• Of all ridiculous things the most ridiculous seems to me, to be busy — to be a man who is brisk about his food and his work. Therefore, whenever I see a fly settling, in the decisive moment, on the nose of such a person of affairs; or if he is spattered with mud from a carriage which drives past him in still greater haste; or the drawbridge opens up before him; or a tile falls down and knocks him dead, then I laugh heartily.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Fall, Past, Men

  "Either/Or". Book by Søren Kierkegaard, transl. in "Bulletin: Comparative literature series", Nr. 3, Texas University (1912), p. 45, 1843.

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• The thing to remember about love affairs," says Simone, "is that they are all like having raccoons in your chimney." ... We have raccoons sometimes in our chimney," explains Simone. And once we tried to smoke them out. We lit a fire, knowing they were there, but we hoped the smoke would cause them to scurry out the top and never come back. Instead, they caught on fire and came crashing down into our living room, all charred and in flames and running madly around until they dropped dead." Simone swallows some wine. "Love affairs are like that," she says. "They are all like that.

  Lorrie Moore

  Running, Wine, Fire

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