#affair

I am not going to answer any questions as to my association, my philosophical or religious beliefs or my political beliefs, or how I voted in any election, or any of these private affairs. ↗

— Pete Seeger

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

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Many people don't give a rip about politics and know as much about public affairs as they know about the topography of Pluto. ↗

— Tony Snow

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All a man's affairs become diseased when he wishes to cure evils by evils. ↗

— Sophocles

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I talk about very serious human affairs but with a lightness of heart. ↗

— Robert Fulghum

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Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs. ↗

— Eliot Spitzer

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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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Since, therefore, no man is born without faults, and he is esteemed the best whose errors are the least, let the wise man consider everything human as connected with himself; for in worldly affairs there is no perfect happiness under heaven. ↗

— Giraldus Cambrensis

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All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs. ↗

— Andrew Fletcher

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Inertia is a powerful force in human and political affairs. ↗

— Maurice Strong

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