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• I am painfully situated, Utterson; my position is a very strange - a very strange one. It is one of those affairs that cannot be mended by talking.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Talking, Strange, Position

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1994). “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, p.30, Collector's Library

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• This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Wisdom, Men, Thinking

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• At best, the relationship between drama critic and playwright is a pretty twiggy affair. When I'm asked whom I write for, after the obligatory, I write only for myself, I realize that I have an imaginary circle of peers - writers and respected or savvy theatre folk, some dramatic writers and some not, some living, some long gone. . . . Often a writer is aware as he works that a certain critic is going to hate this one. . . . You don't let what a critic might say worry you or alter your work; it might even add a spark to the gleeful process of creation.

  Lanford Wilson

  Hate, Drama, Writing

  "The Critic On My Shoulder" by Lanford Wilson, www.nytimes.com. December 29, 1996.

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• I felt, if I'm going to take on some of the most overdone material, which is men and women and affairs and betrayal of friends, I had better have a new take on it. I think my films come from a desperation not to be boring.

  Neil LaBute

  Betrayal, Men, Thinking

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• God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Spirit, Violent

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1990). “Correspondence, Conferences, Documents: Correspondence; January 1640-July 1646)”

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• Let us be submissive to Providence, He will see to our affairs in His own time and in His own way

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Way, Submissive

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Principles, Haste

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• Divine Providence is never wanting in things undertaken at Its command. Even though the whole world should rise up and destroy us, nothing could happen but what is pleasing to God. The less there is of man in affairs, the more there is of God.

  Vincent de Paul

  Faith, Men, World

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• ...it is difficult to master one's feelings and be exact in everything in the midst of many affairs

  Vincent de Paul

  Wisdom, Feelings, Midst

  Saint Vincent de Paul, Pierre Coste (1992). “Correspondence, conferences, documents”, New City Pr

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• If he [the Artist] were to take up the pen it would be...to better express his individuality and explain it to others; or else to put his internal affairs in order...to deepen and sharpen his relationship with his fellow men because other souls exert an immense and creative influence on our soul; or to try to fight for a world as he would like it to be, for a world that is indispensable to his life.

  Witold Gombrowicz

  Fighting, Artist, Men

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• Bill Clinton is a man who thinks international affairs means dating a girl from out of town.

  Tom Clancy

  Girl, Mean, Men

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• Puce Women was my love affair with Hollywood... with all the great goddesses of the silent screen. They were to be filmed in their homes; I was, in effect, filming ghosts.

  Kenneth Anger

  Home, Hollywood, Ghost

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• Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.

  Nikki Sixx

  Alcohol, Acid, Cocaine

  Nikki Sixx (2008). “The Heroin Diaries: A Year in the Life of a Shattered Rock Star”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• The violent, antirationalistic impulse in Western countries is reacting to an intellectual state of affairs in which all thinking has become strategy; this impulse shows a disgust for a certain form of self-preservation. It is a sensitive shivering from the cold breath of a reality where knowledge is power and power is knowledge.

  Peter Sloterdijk

  Country, Reality, Thinking

  "Critique of Cynical Reason". Book by Peter Sloterdijk, 1983.

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• We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

  Walter Lippmann

  Concerned, Public Affairs

  Walter Lippmann (2012). “Public Opinion”, p.31, Courier Corporation

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• There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!

  Wayne Dyer

  Important, Purpose, This Life

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• In human affairs every solution serves only to sharpen the problem, to show us more clearly what we are up against. There are no final solutions.

  Eric Hoffer

  Finals, Problem, Shows

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Each one of us must in the end choose for himself how far he would like to leave our collective fate to the wayward vagaries of popular assemblies For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not I should miss the stimulus of living in a society where I have, at least theoretically, some part in the direction of public affairs.

  Learned Hand

  Fate, Missing, Would Be

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• Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Mind, Wish, Ill

  Marcus Aurelius, C. Scot Hicks, David Hicks (2002). “The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• My love affair with nature is so deep that I am not satisfied with being a mere onlooker, or nature tourist. I crave a more real and meaningful relationship. The spicy teas and tasty delicacies I prepare from wild ingredients are the bread and wine in which I have communion and fellowship with nature, and with the Author of that nature.

  Euell Gibbons

  Meaningful, Real, Wine

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• If we listened to our intellect, we’d never have a love affair... or go into business. You’ve got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

  Annie Dillard

  Wings, Way, Cliffs

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• One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender
  and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.

  R. Buckminster Fuller

  Men, Unique, Humanity

  R. Buckminster Fuller (2008). “Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth”, p.69, Estate of R. Buckminster Fuller

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• I had a fiery affair with George Harrison's wife, Pattie Boyd.

  Ronnie Wood

  Wife, Fiery

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• Watching foreign affairs is sometimes like watching a magician; the eye is drawn to the hand performing the dramatic flourishes, leaving the other hand - the one doing the important job - unnoticed.

  David K. Shipler

  Jobs, Eye, Hands

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• If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they’ll be able to run a township, and a county.

  Wen Jiabao

  Running, People, Village

  Wen Jiabao’s Final National People's Congress Press Conference, blogs.wsj.com. March 14, 2012.

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