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These are not vague inferences . . . but they are solid conclusions drawn from the natural and necessary progress of human affairs.

The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

The truth is that I am enslaved... in one vast love affair with 70 children.

The very phrase 'foreign affairs' makes an Englishman convinced that I am about to treat of subjects with which he has no concern.

The statesmen still say that we should not interfere in the internal affairs of other nations and yet it is not possible any longer not to interfere, even when we do not mean to do so.

The worst thing a girl can do is trail after a boy when a love affair is dead.

This is a most unfortunate affair, and will probably be much talked of. But we must stem the tide of idle chatter, and pour into our wounded bosoms the soothing balm of vengeance.

This is a perverted perception of ambassador's job to say that every contact with a Russian ambassador is potentially dangerous and potentially can put in a line of activities interfering in domestic affairs.

The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.

Time is the inexplicable raw material of everything. With it, all is possible, without it nothing. The supply of time is truly a daily miracle, an affair genuinely astonishing when one examines it.

The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.

To act intelligently in human affairs is only possible if an attempt is made to understand the thoughts, motives, and apprehension of one's opponent so fully that one can see the world through their eyes.

To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.

This policy of supplying by opposite and rival interests, the defect of better motives, might be traced through the whole system of human affairs, both private and public.

To become a theoretical physicist ... you need to have a passionate love affair with the universe.

To shoot a man because one disagrees with his interpretation of Darwin or Hegel is a sinister tribute to the supremacy of ideas in human affairs -- but a tribute nevertheless.

To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.

Truth can hardly be expected to adapt herself to the crooked policy and wily sinuosities of worldly affairs; for truth, like light, travels only in straight lines.

To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.

Virtue is the master of talent, talent is the servant of virtue. Talent without virtue is like a house where there is no master and their servant manages its affairs. How can there be no mischief?

Too many expedients may spoil an affair. [Fr., Le trop d'expedients peut gater une affaire.]

Truth is the summit of being; justice is the application of it to affairs.

Unmitigated seriousness is always out of place in human affairs.

War is elective. It is not an inevitable state of affairs. War is not the weather.

We are only midway through the central verse of our youth when we see ourselves begin to blacken. ... We had been seduced into thinking that we were immortal and suddenly the affair is over.

Wasted Days and Wasted Nights, it's about days very wrongly invested in a love affair.

We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.

We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.

We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.

We are concerned in public affairs, but immersed in our private ones.

We have become convinced that it is better to avoid such symbolic disguisings of the truth in what we tell children and not to withhold from them a knowledge of the true state of affairs commensurate with their intellectual level.

We're in an illusion about what our role is in world politics and foreign affairs, and our policies are killing and destroying and doing a lot of things that we are not aware of.

We have more information - a glut of information - than ever before, and perhaps less knowledge. That's what's peculiar. And the only way you can deal with it, I suppose, is to make fun of it. I would rather watch Comedy Central for the news than I'd like to watch any other program on television. Maybe that shows you the state of affairs.

What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?

We serve a good God who oversees the affairs of mankind.

...What disturbed him was the discovery that in sensibly ordering his affairs he had got out of step, and not into step, with Life.

Whatever happens, I shall never be alone, I shall always have a fare, an affair, or a revolution.

When a writer talks about his work, he's talking about a love affair.

When he is late for dinner and I know he must be either having an affair or lying dead in the street, I always hope he's dead.

When going to the temple to adore Divinity neither say nor do any thing in the interim pertaining to the common affairs of life.

When he [the slothful person] is pressed to be diligent, either in his worldly affairs or in the business of religion, this is his excuse (and a sorry excuse it is as bad as none).

We ought to seek God's assistance in our affairs just as they happen.

When you look back... on your love affairs... what you really find out is that the only person you really go to bed with is yourself.

When I have worries, fears or a love affair, I have the luck of being able to transform it into a poem.

When John was with me, it was total commitment. Whatever he did outside our relationship didn't seem very important. We were together such a lot of the time that whatever other affairs he had once we met couldn't have amounted to much because I was with him most of the time. He kept me in Liverpool as late as I dared stay.

When that truth of alien intervention in our planet's affairs and our ongoing contact with an alien culture is finally revealed, it won't be frightening even though it will be a shock.

When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

When we suffer we have made it into a personal affair. We shut out all the suffering of mankind.

When it's over, we may feel wooed, adored, appreciated, or abused, but it will have been an affair to remember.

When you're dealing with espionage and covert affairs, sometimes the secret is more exciting than the knowledge.