#fairs

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 business of a Political Economist is neither to recommend nor to dissuade, but to state general principles, which it is fatal to neglect, but neither advisable, nor perhaps practicable, to use as the sole, or even the principal, guides in the actual conduct of affairs. ↗

— Nassau William Senior

#advisable #affairs #business #conduct #economist

There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. Omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat. And we must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures. ↗

— William Shakespeare

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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 think I first realized I wanted to be in country music and be an artist when I was 10. And I started dragging my parents to festivals, and fairs, and karaoke contests, and I did that for about a year before I came to Nashville for the first time. I was 11 and I had this demo CD of me singing Dixie Chicks and Leanne Rimes songs. ↗

— Taylor Swift

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I have come to the conclusion that the major part of the work of a President is to increase the gate receipts of expositions and fairs and bring tourists to town. ↗

— William Howard Taft

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

— Karl Kraus

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