"The man fitted for affairs and authority never considers individuals, but things and their consequences."
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"For business, our internet love affair was a gift from the gods."
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"A love affair based on jealousy is doomed from the start ... It is certanly a sign of love, but it's a sign that it's already dying."
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"I hold the maxim no less applicable to public than to private affairs, that honesty is always the best policy."
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"My pride had been starched by a family who assumed unlimited authority in its own affairs."
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"As far as your personal requirements are concerned, the ideal is to have fewer involvements, fewer obligations, and fewer affairs, business or whatever. However, so far as the interest of the larger community is concerned, you must have as many involvements as possible and as many activities as possible."
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"I've been having an affair, but I still believe in family values."
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"Nothing in human affairs is worth any great anxiety."
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"Health is a consumation of a love affair of all the organs of the body."
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"There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly."
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"I know Raft did have some genuine affairs with actresses."
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"Who wants to be a millionaire? And go to ev'ry swell affair?"
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"If we spent half an hour every day in silent immobility, I am convinced that we should conduct all our affairs, personal, national, and international, far more sanely than we do at present."
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"Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment"
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"He who doesn't know how to be a servant should never be allowed to be a master; the interests of public life are alien to anyone who is unable to enjoy others' successes, and such a person should never be entrusted with public affairs."
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"The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs."
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"Life without illusion is a ghostly affair."
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"Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs."
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"I don't care about Clinton's haircuts or his affairs or any of that stuff."
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"War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather."
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