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When you consider things like the ...

When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they? - Virginia Woolf
📅︎ Mar 15
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“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great trium...

“It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.” - Neil Gaiman, Good Omens
📅︎ Mar 05
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"Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possib...

"Any one may so arrange his affairs that his taxes shall be as low as possible; he is not bound to choose that pattern which will best pay the Treasury; there is not even a patriotic duty to increase one's taxes." - Judge Learned Hand
📅︎ Mar 10
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"In great affairs men show themselves as t...

"In great affairs men show themselves as they wish to be seen; in small things they show themselves as they are." — Nicholas Chamfort
📅︎ Jan 31
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“There was a time when corporations played a very minor part i...

“There was a time when corporations played a very minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of the corporations.” -Woodrow Wilson, 1912
📅︎ Nov 05
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“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth ...

“A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.” — Eric Hoffer
📅︎ Sep 24
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"Politics is the art of preventing ...

"Politics is the art of preventing people from taking part in affairs which properly concern them." — Paul Valery
📅︎ Jul 18
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"This is the devilish thing about forei...

"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." — James Reston
📅︎ Jun 21
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'The price good men pay for i...

'The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.'- Plato
📅︎ Feb 09
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"People who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to car...

"People who worked for the public welfare, were not led by an impulse of the heart to care for the public good, but reasoned from intellectual considerations that it was a right thing to take interest in public affairs, and consequently took interest in them." -Leo Tolstoy
📅︎ Dec 28
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"This is the devilish thing about forei...

"This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim." — James Reston
📅︎ Dec 04
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"Meddle Not in the Affairs of ...

"Meddle Not in the Affairs of Dragons......for Humans are Crunchy and Taste Good With Ketchup. "
📅︎ Oct 02
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"Of all the ridiculous things it seems to be the most ridiculous is to be busy man of affairs, pro...

"Of all the ridiculous things it seems to be the most ridiculous is to be busy man of affairs, prompt to meals to prompt to work. Hence when I see a fly settle down in a crucial moment on the nose of a businessman... then I laugh heartily... What do they accomplish these hustlers?"-Kierkegaard(1843)
📅︎ Aug 21
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“If names cannot be correct, then language is not in accordance wit...

“If names cannot be correct, then language is not in accordance with the truth of things; and if language is not in accordance with the truth of things, affairs cannot be carried on to success.” -- Confucius
📅︎ Oct 11
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"The price good men pay for indiff...

"The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men" - Plato, The Republic
📅︎ Jun 17
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"Of all affairs, com...

"Of all affairs, communication is the most wonderful." - John Dewey
📅︎ Aug 22
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A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth m...

A man is likely to mind his own business when it is worth minding. When it is not, he takes his mind off his own meaningless affairs by minding other people’s business.” — Eric Hoffer
📅︎ May 08
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“Nothing in the aff...

“Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.” Plato
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“Remember that there is nothing stable in human...

“Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity.” —Isocrates
📅︎ Dec 16
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“The less the prudence with which others cond...

“The less the prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we must conduct our own.” - Warren Buffett
📅︎ Feb 26
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Affairs don't start in ...

Affairs don't start in bedrooms. They start with conversation- MS. KIYIEKAH
📅︎ Apr 23
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"I do not criticize persons, but only a state of affa...

"I do not criticize persons, but only a state of affairs. It is they, however, who will have to answer for defensiveness at the bar of history." - Liddell Hart, 1933
📅︎ Jun 25
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"During the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from t...

"During the daily peak viewing periods, television in the main insulates us from the realities of the world in which we live. If this state of affairs continues, we may alter an advertising slogan to read: Look now, pay later." - Edward R. Murrow, 1958
📅︎ Mar 04
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Chance encounters brighten the day. They'...

Chance encounters brighten the day. They're like little love affairs without consequences. They keep you alert.—Willard Spiegelman
📅︎ Sep 06
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"Except during the nine months before he dra...

"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,
📅︎ Jun 15
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"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die...Just t...

"I think that life would suddenly seem wonderful to us if we were threatened to die...Just think of how many projects, travels, love affairs, studies, it - our life - hides from us, made invisible by our laziness which, certain of a future, delays them incessantly." - Marcel Proust
📅︎ Dec 03
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"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triump...

"It may help to understand human affairs to be clear that most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people." Terry Pratchet (Good omens)
📅︎ Mar 30
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'In the EU we have two kinds of memberstates: small ones and those who still don't realize t...

'In the EU we have two kinds of memberstates: small ones and those who still don't realize that they are small. This is the big world we live in. It's good to accept this reality.' Federica Mogherini, High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy
📅︎ Nov 12
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"POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a con...

"POLITICS, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage." - Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary (1906)
📅︎ Aug 06
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"It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you...

"It’s funny how you can forget everything except people loving you. Maybe that’s why humans find it so hard getting over love affairs. It’s not the pain they’re getting over, it’s the love." – Jellicoe Road
📅︎ Aug 23
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Experience has always shown, and reaso...

Experience has always shown, and reason also, that affairs which depend on many seldom succeed. ~ Francesco Guicciardini
📅︎ Apr 12
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"We are not going to achieve a new world order wi...

"We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money." - Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in Foreign Affairs
📅︎ Apr 28
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"Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, mon...

"Genius is no respecter of time, trouble, money or persons, the four things round which human affairs turn most persistently." - Samuel Butler
📅︎ May 11
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"There is a tide in the affairs o...

"There is a tide in the affairs of men. Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune;" - W. Shakespeare
📅︎ Apr 27
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"If a nation is centered in the Tao, if it nourishes it...

"If a nation is centered in the Tao, if it nourishes its own people and doesn't meddle in the affairs of others, it will be a light to all nations in the world." - Lao Tzu
📅︎ Apr 23
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“Truth is the summit of being;...

“Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.” ―Ralph Waldo Emerson
📅︎ Dec 31
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A religion that takes no account of ...

A religion that takes no account of practical affairs and does not help to solve them is no religion -Mahatma Gandhi
📅︎ Jul 02
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"Every step forward begin...

"Every step forward begins with a firmly planted foot in the past." -Covert Affairs
📅︎ Jul 30
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“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or...

“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail.”-Henry David Thoreau, Walden
📅︎ Oct 13
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In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and...

In all affairs, it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. ~ Bertrand Russell
📅︎ Sep 25
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"A total abstainer is one who abstains from ev...

"A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others." - Ambrose Bierce
📅︎ Oct 17
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"There is a tide in the affairs of men ...

"There is a tide in the affairs of men which, taken at the flood, lead on to fortune." ~ William Shakespeare, Julius Caesar
📅︎ Aug 17
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