"Since the whole affair had become one of religion, the vanquished were of course exterminated."
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"From the very beginning our people have markedly combined practical capacity for affairs with power of devotion to an ideal. The lack of either quality would have rendered the other of small value."
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"In physics the truth is rarely perfectly clear, and that is certainly universally the case in human affairs. Hence, what is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth."
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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."
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"I've always had a weakness for foreign affairs."
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"A love that is based on the goodness of those whom you love is a mercenary affair."
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"Absence of thought is indeed a powerful factor in human affairs, statistically speaking the most powerful, not just in the conduct of the many but in the conduct of all."
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"Love is an affair of credulity."
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"It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly."
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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."
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"The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men."
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"The ideal love affair should be conducted by post."
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"Quite generally, international affairs have more than a slight resemblance to the Mafia. The Godfather does not take it lightly when he is crossed, even by a small storekeeper."
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"Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs."
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"South America goes its own way dramatically in international affairs."
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"Artist colonies are notorious for breaking up marriages and housing affairs."
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"Love is mainly an affair of short spasms. If these spasms disappoint us, love dies. It is very seldom that it weathers the experience and becomes friendship."
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"When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind."
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"To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals."
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"Politics and the affairs of State are dissociated from the orbit of the individual, and in so far as they cannot be repossessed as his living private property they must be rendered impotent."
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