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• I was not sure I wanted to issue orders to life; I rather liked the Greek notion of allowing Chance to take a formative hand in my affairs.

  Robertson Davies

  Life, Hands, Order

  Robertson Davies (1996). “Fifth business”, Penguin, 1996

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• The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

  Alan Cohen

  Love, Confidence, Self Worth

  Alan Cohen (2006). “Relax Into Wealth: How to Get More by Doing Less”, p.46, Penguin

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• Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.

  Seneca the Younger

  Fate, Men, Order

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• For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Marketing, Internet, Love Affair

  Gary Vaynerchuk (2011). “The Thank You Economy”, p.22, Harper Collins

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• I am teaching... This year it's kind of like having a love affair with a rhinoceros.

  Anne Sexton

  Education, Teaching, Kind

  "Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters".

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• The contemplation of celestial things will make a man both speak and think more sublimely and magnificently when he descends to human affairs.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Science, Men, Thinking

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• Friendship is the only point in human affairs concerning the benefit of which all, with one voice, agree.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Real, Voice, Benefits

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1856). “Cicero's Three Books Of Offices, Or Moral Duties: Also His Cato Major, an Essay on Old Age; Laelius, an Essay on Friendship; Paradoxes; Scipio's Dream; and Letter to Quintus on the Duties of a Magistrate”, p.204

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• In the conduct of almost every affair slowness and procrastination are hateful

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Procrastination, Hateful, Slowness

  Marcus Tullius Cicero (1871). “The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero”, p.119

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• Millions of people have tried meditation and dropped out of it because they took it very seriously. Religion has been thought to be a very serious affair - it is not. One has to understand - at least those who are with me - that religion is a playfulness, a laughter. Take it easy; then things blossom without any tension. You are not taking it easy, you are making it difficult.

  Rajneesh

  Laughter, People, Meditation

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• In all the affairs of this world, so much reputation is in reality so much power.

  John Tillotson

  Reality, World, Reputation

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• Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.

  Iris Murdoch

  Taken, Literature, Serious

  Iris Murdoch (1977). “Henry and Cato”, Viking Pr

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• It is unfortunately very true that, without leisure and money, love can be no more than an orgy of the common man. Instead of being a sudden impulse full of ardor and reverie, it becomes a distastefully utilitarian affair.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Love, Men, Leisure

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• But in practical affairs, particularly in politics, men are needed who combine human experience and interest in human relations with a knowledge of science and technology. Moreover, they must be men of action and not contemplation. I have the impression that no method of education can produce people with all the qualities required. I am haunted by the idea that this break in human civilization, caused by the discovery of the scientific method, may be irreparable.

  Max Born

  Education, Science, Technology

  "My Life & My Views". Book by Max Born, 1968.

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• The first love affair you must consummate is the love affair with yourself. Only then are you ready for a romantic relationship.

  Nathaniel Branden

  Love Yourself, First Love, Love Relationship

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• English character and English freedom depend comparatively little on the form which the Constitution assumes at Westminster. A centralised democracy may be as tyrannical as an absolute monarch; and if the vigour of the nation is to continue unimpaired, each individual, each family, each district, must preserve as far as possible its independence, its self-completeness, its powers and its privilege to manage its own affairs and think its own thoughts.

  James Anthony Froude

  Character, Thinking, Self

  James Anthony Froude (1875). “Short Studies on Great Subjects: Second series”, p.446

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• Anyone may arrange his affairs so that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which best pays the treasury. There is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes. Over and over again the Courts have said that there is nothing sinister in so arranging affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible. Everyone does it, rich and poor alike and all do right, for nobody owes any public duty to pay more than the law demands.

  Learned Hand

  Money, Patriotic, Government

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• It is commonly supposed that the uniformity of a studious life affords no matter for narration: but the truth is, that of the most studious life a great part passes without study. An author partakes of the common condition of humanity; he is born and married like another man; he has hopes and fears, expectations and disappointments, griefs and joys, and friends and enemies, like a courtier or a statesman; nor can I conceive why his affairs shuld not excite curiosity as much as the whisper of a drawing-room, or the factions of a camp.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disappointment, Grief, Drawing

  Samuel Johnson (1836). “The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.: D., with an Essay on His Life and Genius”, p.453

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• Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love.

  Richard Bach

  Love, Respect, Loneliness

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• Though motherhood is the most important of all the professions - requiring more knowledge than any other department in human affairs - there was no attention given to preparation for this office.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Motherhood, Office, Preparation

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton (2016). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton: As Revealed in Her Letters & Diary (Abridged)”, p.78, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Concentration is the secret of strength in politics, in war, in trade, in short in all management of human affairs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  War, Commitment, Focus And Concentration

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1866). “The Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson: Comprising His Essays, Lectures, Poems, and Orations”, p.339

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• The direction of all economic affairs is in the market society a task of the entrepreneurs. Theirs is the control of production. They are at the helm and steer the ship. A superficial observer would believe that they are supreme. But they are not. They are bound to obey unconditionally the captain's orders.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Believe, Order, People

  "Human Action".

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• All varieties of interference with the market phenomena not only fail to achieve the ends aimed at by their authors and supporters, but bring about a state of affairs which - from the point of view of their authors and advocates valuations - is less desirable than the previous state of affairs which they were designed to alter.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Views, Liberty, Failing

  Ludwig Von Mises (1944). “Bureaucracy”

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• Not mythical material productive forces, but reason and ideas determine the course of human affairs. What is needed to stop the trend toward socialism and despotism is common-sense and moral courage.

  Ludwig von Mises

  Ideas, Common Sense, Liberty

  Ludwig Von Mises (1947). “Planned Chaos”, p.83, Ludwig von Mises Institute

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• The fact throughout history is that whenever government dominates the economic affairs of its citizenry, a free society is eroded, then destroyed, and a minority government ensues. Personal liberty without economic liberty is an absolute contradiction; the one cannot exist without the other.

  William E. Simon

  Government, Liberty, Minorities

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• In physics we deal with states of affairs much simpler than those of psychology and yet we again and again learn that our task is not to investigate the essence of things-we do not at all know what this would mean&mash;but to develop those concepts that allow us to speak with each other about the events of nature in a fruitful manner.

  Niels Bohr

  Knowledge, Mean, Science

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