#fairs

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#advantage #affairs #conduct #contest #interests

I stand for strict economy in governmental affairs. ↗

— Harry F. Byrd

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I can only say, think of me what you will, I have worked for thirty years in the Party, and my whole family has devoted everything to the affairs of the Party, the affairs of socialism. ↗

— Alexander Dubcek

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Do not be desirous of having things done quickly. Do not look at small advantages. Desire to have things done quickly prevents their being done thoroughly. Looking at small advantages prevents great affairs from being accomplished. ↗

— Wilson Mizner

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Countries such as the U.S. and Britain have taken it upon themselves to decide for us in the developing world, even to interfere in our domestic affairs and to bring about what they call regime change. ↗

— Robert Mugabe

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I've had many happy love affairs. ↗

— Edward Mulhare

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Desperate affairs require desperate measures. ↗

— Horatio Nelson

#desperate #measures #require

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety. ↗

— Plato

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This is the devilish thing about foreign affairs: they are foreign and will not always conform to our whim. ↗