Quotes with affairs

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  • Antonio Guterres It is, for me, clear that the world needs a United States that is engaged in security issues, in development issues, in human rights issues. The contribution of the United States for global affairs is absolutely crucial. And the cooperation with the U.N. is very important from our perspective.
    Antonio Guterres
    Portuguese politician and UN Secretary General (1949 - )
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  • Golda Meir It's no accident many accuse me of conducting public affairs with my heart instead of my head. Well, what if I do? Those who don't know how to weep with their whole heart don't know how to laugh either.
    Golda Meir
    Prime Minister of Israel (1898 - 1978)
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  • Rebecca West Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.
    Rebecca West
    British author (1892 - 1983)
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  • St. Francis de Sales Make friends with the angels, who though invisible are always with you. Often invoke them, constantly praise them, and make good use of their help and assistance in all your temporal and spiritual affairs.
    St. Francis de Sales
    Bishop of Geneva and is honored as a saint in the Catholic Church (1567 - 1622)
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  • Bob Woodward Nixon had some large achievements in foreign affairs. They will be remembered. But a president probably gets remembered for one thing, and Watergate will head the Nixon list, I suspect.
    Bob Woodward
    American investigative journalist (1943 - )
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  • Plato Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
    Plato
    Greek philosopher (427 - 347)
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  • C. Robert Kehler Nuclear weapons continue to occupy a unique place in global security affairs. No other weapons, in my opinion, anyway, match their potential for prompt and long-term damage and their strategic impact.
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  • Carroll Quigley Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network.
    Carroll Quigley
    American historian and theorist (1910 - 1977)
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  • Richard Buckminster Fuller One of humanity's prime drives is to understand and be understood. All other living creatures are designed for highly specialized tasks. Man seems unique as the comprehensive comprehender and co-ordinator of local universe affairs.
    Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth (1963)
    Richard Buckminster Fuller
    American architect, systems theorist, author, designer, and inventor (1895 - 1983)
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  • Henry David Thoreau Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify, simplify! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb-nail.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Lao-Tzu People in their handlings of affairs often fail when they are about to succeed. If one remains as careful at the end as he was at the beginning, there will be no failure.
    Lao-Tzu
    Chinese philosopher (600 - 550)
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  • Alphonse De Lamartine Providence conceals itself in the details of human affairs, but becomes unveiled in the generalities of history.
    Alphonse De Lamartine
    French poet, statesman and historian (1790 - 1869)
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  • Thomas Jefferson Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
    Thomas Jefferson
    American statesman (1743 - 1826)
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  • Cardinal De Richelieu Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
    Cardinal De Richelieu
    French clergyman and nobleman (1585 - 1642)
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  • Nigel Farage Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?
    Nigel Farage
    British politician, activist, political commentator and broadcaster (1964 - )
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  • Fran Lebowitz Should you be a teenager blessed with uncommon good looks, document this state of affairs by the taking of photographs. It is the only way anyone will ever believe you in years to come.
    Social Studies (1981)
    Fran Lebowitz
    American journalist (1950 - )
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  • Wilson Mizner Some of the greatest love affairs I've known have involved one actor – unassisted.
    Wilson Mizner
    American Author (1876 - 1933)
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  • Robert Collier Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.
    Robert Collier
    American author
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  • Baruch Spinoza Surely human affairs would be far happier if the power in men to be silent were the same as that to speak. But experience more than sufficiently teaches that men govern nothing with more difficulty than their tongues, and can moderate their desires more easily than their words.
    Baruch Spinoza
    Dutch philosopher (1632 - 1677)
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  • Milarepa The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
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