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  Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Political Will, Greed, Nerd

  Ambrose Bierce (2009). “The Devil's Dictionary: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.271, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I realized that public affairs were also my affairs.

  Helen Gahagan Douglas

  I Realized, Public Affairs

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• But Italy can only have any real influence on world affairs if it carries weight in Europe.

  Romano Prodi

  Real, Europe, World

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• Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto.

  Tony Snow

  Rip, People, Giving

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• Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.

  Francesco Guicciardini

  Succeed, Planning, Depends

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• Japan and China are isolated and without intercourse with other countries; hence the President directed me to attend to or watch the state of affairs in China also.

  Townsend Harris

  Country, Japan, President

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• Only towards the end of this process are any of the chapters in fully readable condition, a state of affairs that used to alarm my wife. But Joan's got used to it.

  Fred Saberhagen

  Wife, Alarms, Literature

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• In such a condition of affairs, the practical difference between the abolitionist and the sympathizer, to the man who lost his slave and could not recover it, was very nebulous.

  John Sergeant Wise

  Men, Differences, Individualism

  John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.80, Anza Publishing

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• The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

  John Dingell

  Mistake, Leaving, Made

  "CNN Novak, Hunt & Shields". Interview With John Dingell, www.cnn.com. October 19, 2002.

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• I had had an affair with the moon, in which there was neither sin nor shame.

  Laurence Sterne

  Moon, Sin, Shame

  1768 A Sentimental Journey,'The Monk, Calais'.

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• Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

  Mary Hunter Austin

  Credit, Kind, Interdependence

  Mary Hunter Austin, Marjorie Pryse (1987). “Stories from the Country of Lost Borders”, p.37, Rutgers University Press

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• No amount of worrying can change the future. Go easy on yourself, for the outcome of all affairs is determined by God's decree. If something is meant to go elsewhere, it will never come your way, but if it is yours by destiny, from you it cannot flee.

  Umar

  Destiny, Worry, Outcomes

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• Few friendships could survive the moodiness of love affairs.

  Mason Cooley

  Love Affair, Moodiness

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

  Frank B. Kellogg

  Destiny, Progress, Public Opinion

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• A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Inspirational, Peace, Interesting

  Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.15, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about.

  Henry Ford

  God, Spiritual, Work

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• Twenty can't be expected to tolerate sixty in all things, and sixty gets bored stiff with twenty's eternal love affairs.

  Emily Carr

  Bored, Twenties, Eternal Love

  Emily Carr (2009). “Hundreds and Thousands: The Journals of Emily Carr”, p.199, D & M Publishers

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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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• 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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• He who could foresee affairs three days in advance would be rich for thousands of years.

  Thomas Carlyle

  Years, Would Be, Three

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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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• Human affairs are so obscure and various that nothing can be clearly known.

  Desiderius Erasmus

  Obscure, Humans, Various

  Desiderius Erasmus (1965). “Essential works of Erasmus”

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