"Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]"
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"It is ridiculous to suppose that the great head of things, whatever it be, pays any regard to human affairs."
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"Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it."
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"The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth."
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"If it were not for my firm belief in an overruling Providence, it would be difficult for me, in the midst of such complications of affairs, to keep my reason on its seat. But I am confident that the Almighty has His plans, and will work them out; and, whether we see it or not, they will be the best for us."
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"If you bring a friend into your love affair, that's the end of your sweetheart that's the end of your friend, that's when your heartache begins."
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"The great affair, we always find, is to get money."
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"I had very deep concerns about my financial status because I found that up until "Let's Dance" I was virtually broke again. I had been so irresponsible in how I dealt with my financial affairs. I take full responsibility for that."
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"God is trying to woo us into a love affair with God."
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"Emotional affairs, those are the only real affairs; those are the real ones."
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"The love affair you seek is with yourself."
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"It is natural to think that an abstract science cannot be of much importance in affairs of human life, because it has omitted from its consideration everything of real interest."
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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!"
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"i have come to terms with my life, and that is my affair - i am not cold, i swear, but i have decided certain things, it is best for me to ignore emotion; i have not been happy dealing with it."
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"But since the affairs of men rests still incertain, Let's reason with the worst that may befall."
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"What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?"
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"Neville Chamberlain looked at foreign affairs through the wrong end of a municipal drainpipe."
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"Our life seems not present, so much as prospective; not for the affairs on which it is wasted, but as a hint of this vast- flowingvigor."
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"God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous."
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"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards because a refusal often offends, I read somewhere."
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