#affair

In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

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I grew up with an impatience with the anti-scientific. So I'm a bit miffed with our current love affair with all things Eastern. If I sneeze on the set, 40 people hand me echinacea. But I'd no sooner take that than eat a pencil. Maybe that's why I took up boxing. It's my response to men in white pajamas feeling each other's chi. ↗

— Hugh Laurie

#all things #bit #boxing #chi #current

The war... was an unnecessary condition of affairs, and might have been avoided if forebearance and wisdom had been practiced on both sides. ↗

— Robert E. Lee

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Blunders are an inescapable feature of war, because choice in military affairs lies generally between the bad and the worse. ↗

— Allan Massie

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I engaged in an adult consensual affair with another man. ↗

— James McGreevey

#affair #another #another man #consensual #engaged

But the fact is, Mr. Chairman, for all the challenges the Postal Service of the 21st century faces, it still retains its traditional place as a key cog in how American businesses conduct their affairs and how Americans all across this land communicate. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#across #affairs #american #american businesses #businesses

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke. ↗

— Herman Melville

#call #certain #his #joke #life

Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a love affair or else when the sweet emotions of love lead us into marriage and then turn down their flames. ↗

— Thomas Moore

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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously. ↗

— Iris Murdoch

#human #human affairs #serious #seriously #taken

I had started my love affair with Wimbledon. ↗

— John Newcombe

#had #i #love #love affair #started