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Former President of the United States

It is a misfortune, inseparable from human affairs, that public measures are rarely investigated with that spirit of moderation which is essential to a just estimate of their real tendency to advance or obstruct the public good; and that this spirit is more apt to be diminished than prompted, by those occasions which require an unusual exercise of it.

Affairs - Essence - Human - Misfortune - Spirits - Tendency

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Noam Chomsky

Linguist, Philosopher, Cognitive Scientist, Social Critic, Political Activist

International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience otherwise the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders and it can spread to important places.

Accept - Affairs - Payment

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Ambrose Bierce

Writer, Journalist, Soldier

RADICALISM, n. The conservatism of to-morrow injected into the affairs of to-day.

Affairs

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Aldous Huxley

Writer, Philosopher

My father considered a walk among the mountains as the equivalent of churchgoing.

Hiking

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

The concept of a 'just' or 'fair' price is devoid of any scientific meaning; it is a disguise for wishes, a striving for a state of affairs different from reality.

Affairs - Disguise - Reality - State - Wishing

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Thomas Jefferson

Former President of the United States

I leave the world and its affairs to the young and energetic, and resign myself to their care, of whom I have endeavored to take care when young.

Affairs - Energy

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Eric Hoffer

Historian, Writer, Philosopher

Free men are aware of the imperfection inherent in human affairs, and they are willing to fight and die for that which is not perfect.

Affairs - Death - Fighting - Human - Imperfection - Inherent - Man - Perfection - Willing

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Winston Churchill

Former Prime Minister of the U.K.

Nobody wants to intervene in Russian affairs. Russia is a very large country, a very old country, a very disagreeable country inhabited by immense numbers of ignorant people largely possessed of lethal weapons and in a state of extreme disorder. Also Russia is a long way off.

Affairs - Countries - Extreme - Ignorance - Possession - State - Wants

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

Many discoveries are reserved for ages still to come . . . . Our universe is a sorry little affair unless it has in it something for every age to investigate.

Affairs - Age - Discovery - Flight - Sorry - Universe

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Niccolo Machiavelli

Politician, Historian, Philosopher, Writer

It may be observed, that provinces amid the vicissitudes to which they are subject, pass from order into confusion, and afterward recur to a state of order again; for the nature of mundane affairs not allowing them to continue in an even course, when they have arrived at their greatest perfection, they soon begin to decline.

Affairs - Allowance - State

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Seneca the Younger

Philosopher, Statesman, Dramatist

Human affairs are like a chess-game: only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players. Life is like an earthen pot: only when it is shattered, does it manifest its emptiness.

Affairs - Emptiness - Game - Human - Manifestation - Playing

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Toni Morrison

Athlete, Novelist, Novelist

Women's rights is not only an abstraction, a cause; it is also a personal affair. It is not only about us; it is also about me and you. Just the two of us.

Affairs - Personal - Right - Woman

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Honore de Balzac

Artist, Novelist, Novelist

In Paris every man must have had a love affair. What woman wants something that no other woman ever wanted.

Affairs - Jealousy - Man - Paris - Wants

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Rumi

Actress, Poet, Poet

Beauty surrounds us, but usually we need to be walking in a garden to know it.

Gardening - Hiking - Journey - Surrounding

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Mikhail Bulgakov

Dancer, Writer, Writer

Allow me to inquire how man can control his own affairs when he is not only incapable of compiling a plan for some laughably short term such as, say, a thousand years, but cannot even predict what will happen to him tomorrow?

Affairs - Incapacity - Man - Plan

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Woodrow Wilson

Former President of the United States

War isn’t declared in the name of God; it is a human affair entirely.

Affairs - Human

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Ludwig von Mises

Composer, Economist, Philosopher

This dilettantish inability to comprehend the essential issues of the conduct of production affairs is not only manifested in the writings of Marx and Engels. It permeates no less the contributions of contemporary pseudo-economics.

Affairs - Economy - Essence - Inability - Liberty - Production - Writing

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Mahatma Gandhi

Lawyer, Politician, Civil Rights Activist

If you want to play your part in the world's affairs, you must refuse to deck yourselves for pleasing man.

Affairs - Man - Playing - Wants - Woman

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George Santayana

Philosopher, Writer, Poet

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

Affairs - Human - Serious

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Benjamin Franklin

Polymath, Founding Father of the United States

Whoever shall introduce into public affairs the principles of primitive Christianity will change the face of the world.

Affairs - Education - Principle

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