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• And this is the time. It is the time for this land to become again a witness to the world for what is noble and just in human affairs. It is the time to live more with faith and less with fear- with an abiding confidence that can sweep away the strongest barriers between us and teach us that we truly are brothers and sisters.

  George McGovern

  Brother, Time, Land

  George McGovern (2004). “The Essential America: Our Founders and the Liberal Tradition”, p.165, Simon and Schuster

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• Let no man grumble when his friends fall off, As they will do like leaves at the first breeze; When your affairs come round, one way or t'other, Go to the coffee house, and take another.

  Lord Byron

  Coffee, Fall, Men

  Lord Byron (2015). “Don Juan”, p.429, Xist Publishing

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• It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Order

  "Florentine Histories" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book V, chapter 1, 1526.

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• So in all human affairs one notices, if one examines them closely, that it is impossible to remove one inconvenience without another emerging.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Impossible

  "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò Machiavelli, book 1, ch. 3, as translated by LJ Walker and B Crick, 1517.

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• From the latter he is defended by being well armed and having good allies, and if he is well armed he will have good friends, and affairs will always remain quiet within when they are quiet without, unless they should have been already disturbed by conspiracy; and even should affairs outside be disturbed, if he has carried out his preparations and has lived as I have said, as long as he does not despair, he will resist every attack.

  Niccolo Machiavelli

  Art, War, Good Friend

  Niccolo Machiavelli (2010). “The Prince”, p.76, FastPencil Inc

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• A certain grasp of military affairs is vital for those in charge of general policy.

  Carl von Clausewitz

  Military, Certain, Policy

  Carl von Clausewitz (1989). “On Victory and Defeat: From "On War"”, p.608, Princeton University Press

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• Of all the joint ventures in which we might engage, the most productive, in my view, is educational exchange. I have always had great difficulty-since the initiation of the Fulbright scholarships in 1946-in trying to find the words that would persuasively explain that educational exchange is not merely one of those nice but marginal activities in which we engage in international affairs, but rather, from the standpoint of future world peace and order, probably the most important and potentially rewarding of our foreign-policy activities.

  J. William Fulbright

  Nice, Educational, Views

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• Finally, the Program aims, through these means, to bring a little more knowledge, a little more reason, and a little more compassion into world affairs and thereby to increase the chance that nations will learn at last to live in peace and friendship.

  J. William Fulbright

  Educational, Mean, Compassion

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• Golf is very much like a love affair. If you don't take it seriously, it's no fun, if you do, it breaks your heart. Don't break your heart, but flirt with the possibility.

  Louise Suggs

  Fun, Heart, Golf

  Louise Suggs (1960). “Golf for Women”

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• The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

  Abdu'l-Bahá

  Educational, Fall, Ignorance

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• I don't believe skill was, or ever will be, the result of coaches. It is a result of a love affair between the child and the ball.

  Roy Keane

  Soccer, Football, Children

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

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• The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture.

  William Hazlitt

  Opportunity, Men, Practice

  William Hazlitt (1845). “Table Talk: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.51

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• I am quite sure that very few of the so-called Reds in Spain were really Communists. We were badly deceived, for, had I known the real state of affairs, I would never have allowed our aircraft to bombard and destroy a starving population and at the same time re-establish the Spanish clergy in all their horrible privileges. (10th February 1945)

  Adolf Hitler

  Real, Spain, Population

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• That meddling in other people's affairs...formerly conducted by the most discreet intrigue is now openly advocated under the name of intervention.

  T. S. Eliot

  Peace, War, Names

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• The world is full of fools and faint hearts; and yet everyone has courage enough to bear the misfortunes, and wisdom enough to manage the affairs, of his neighbor.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Wisdom, Hypocrite, Heart

  Benjamin Franklin (2007). “Poor Richard's Almanack”, p.82, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• I have always thought that one man of tolerable abilities may work great changes, and accomplish great affairs among mankind, if he first forms a good plan, and, cutting off all amusements or other employments that would divert his attention, make the execution of that same plan his sole study and business.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Philosophy, Work, Cutting

  Benjamin Franklin, Ulysses S. Grant, Andrew Carnegie, Henry Adams (2016). “Great American Lives: The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant, Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie, and The Education of Henry Adams”, p.110, Open Road Media

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• Germany neither intends nor wishes to interfere in the internal affair of Austria, to annex Austria, or to conclude an Anschluss

  Adolf Hitler

  War, Wish, Germany

  Adolf Hitler (1941). “My new order”

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• In those days contests were extremely rough and frequently cost the participants their lives. Thus, whenever I sallied forth to take part in any of those affairs, I invariably bade farewell to my parents, since I had no assurance that I should ever return alive.

  Yokoyama Sakujiro

  Farewell, Parent, Alive

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• Christian love, either towards God or towards man, is an affair of the will.

  C. S. Lewis

  Life, Christian, Men

  C. S. Lewis (2003). “A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis”, p.84, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• May I never get too busy in my own affairs that I fail to respond to the needs of others with kindness and compassion.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Kindness, Helping Others, Compassion

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• At my age an affair of the heart is a bypass!

  Joan Rivers

  Heart, Age, Funny Valentine

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• This long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead. Economists set themselves too easy, too useless a task if in tempestuous seasons they can only tell us that when the storm is long past the ocean is flat again.

  John Maynard Keynes

  Death, Running, Ocean

  1923 A Tract on Monetary Reform.

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• The human brain is the most public organ on the face of the earth, open to everything, sending out messages to everything. To be sure, it is hidden away in bone and conducts internal affairs in secrecy, but virtually all the business is the direct result of thinking that has already occurred in other minds.

  Lewis Thomas

  Thinking, Brain, Mind

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• Let us a little permit nature to take her own way; she better understands her own affairs than we.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Nature, Experience, Littles

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Men, Experience, Would Be

  "Ethica Ordine Geometrico Demonstrata" by Baruch Spinoza, Part III, 1677.

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