#fairs

Language is a weapon of politicians, but language is a weapon in much of human affairs. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

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Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition. ↗

— Henry Clay

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There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation. ↗

— W. C. Fields

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Later in that administration, I was asked to take a job which I had to turn down as Assistant Secretary of State for Economic Affairs because we were just then putting together the merger of two small law firms that became this law firm. I couldn't leave them at that point. ↗

— Lloyd Cutler

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I've had affairs. But I'm not the sort of man who has 10,000 affairs. ↗

— Gerard Depardieu

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I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about. ↗

— Henry Ford

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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance. ↗

— E. M. Forster

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At the beginning, because the lives of the hostages were at stake, then during this silent period we have taken several measures like not accepting the ultimatum of the terrorists threatening to kill our foreign affairs minister. ↗

— Alberto Fujimori

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed. ↗

— Francesco Guicciardini

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The capacity for people to kid themselves is huge. Living on illusions or delusions, and the re-establishing of these illusions or delusions requires a big effort to keep them from being seen through. But a very old idea is at work behind our current state of affairs: enantiodromia, or the Greek notion of things turning into their opposite. ↗

— James Hillman

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