#affair

No man should ever lose sleep over public affairs. ↗

— Harold MacMillan

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatsoever to do with it. ↗

— W. Somerset Maugham

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As the unity of the modern world becomes increasingly a technological rather than a social affair, the techniques of the arts provide the most valuable means of insight into the real direction of our own collective purposes. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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The medium is the message. This is merely to say that the personal and social consequences of any medium - that is, of any extension of ourselves - result from the new scale that is introduced into our affairs by each extension of ourselves, or by any new technology. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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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

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As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other. ↗

— John Stuart Mill

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

— Iris Murdoch

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Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

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After being married for over 37 years, I showed extremely poor judgment by engaging in an extramarital affair. ↗

— David Petraeus

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It is misery, you know, unspeakable misery for the man who lives alone and who detests sordid, casual affairs; not old enough to do without women, but not young enough to be able to go and look for one without shame! ↗

— Luigi Pirandello

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