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The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me.

The deeper you love yourself, the more the universe will affirm your worth. Then you can enjoy a lifelong love affair that brings you the richest fulfillment from inside out.

The executive of the modern state is but a committee for managing the common affairs of the whole bourgeoisie.

The good old maxims of the Bible are applicable, and truly applicable to human affairs, and in this as in other things, we may say here that he who is not for us is against us; he would gathereth not with us scattereth.

The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited thoroughbred, climb aboard, and gallop over the thick, sunstruck hills every day.

The great affair, we always find, is to get money.

The critic is the duenna in the passionate affair between playwrights, actors and audiences - a figure dreaded, and occasionally comic, but never welcome, never loved.

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

The difficult problems in life always start off being simple. Great affairs always start off being small.

The investment banks should either choose to be regulated as banks or should arrange to conduct their affairs to not require the stop-gap support of the Federal Reserve.

The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.

The Irish innovation was to make all confession a completely private affair between penitent and priest - and to make it as repeatable as necessary. (In fact, repetition was encouraged on the theory that, oh well, everyone pretty much sinned just about all the time.)

The love affair you seek is with yourself.

The men who administer public affairs must first of all see that everyone holds onto what is his, and that private men are never deprived of their goods by public men.

The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service.

The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.

The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

The mistake that was made was, of course, leaving Saddam Hussein in charge of affairs.

The only love affair I have ever had was with music.

The only good histories are those that have been written by the persons themselves who commanded in the affairs whereof they write.

Theodore Roosevelt is among the most captivating of presidents in our time, but his administration is often underestimated. Roosevelt's successes in domestic and international affairs are so wide-ranging as to appear obvious or inevitable in retrospect.

The peace of God is first and foremost peace with God; it is the state of affairs in which God, instead of being against us, is for us. No account of God's peace which does not start here can do other than mislead.

The public pays and feels it is entitled to participate in the personal affairs of a performer.

The rain ...falls upon the just and the unjust alike; a thing which would not happen if I were superintending the rain's affairs. No, I would rain softly and sweetly on the just, but if I caught a sample of the unjust outdoors, I would drown him.

There are but few important events in the affairs of men brought about by their own choice.

The people [in the USA] are not very well informed. They certainly don`t know history. They certainly are not interested in foreign affairs very much, unless it comes right to their doorstep. They all learn history through wars. They learn geography through wars.

There are no small steps in great affairs.

There are certain queer times and occasions in this strange mixed affair we call life when a man takes his whole universe for a vast practical joke.

There is a slowness in affairs which ripens them, and a slowness which rots them.

There is -- in world affairs -- a steady course to be followed between an assertion of strength that is truculent and a confession of helplessness that is cowardly.

There is no defence for my actions which I sincerely regret. [on an affair with nanny Daisy Wright]

There is no justification for having an affair.

There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.

The mere absorption of facts and truths is so exclusively an individual affair that it tends very naturally to pass into selfishness. There is no obvious social motive for the acquirement of mere learning, there is no clear social gain in success thereat.

There is only one time that is important-Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary person is the one with whom you are, for no person knows whether he or she will ever have dealings with anyone else: and the most important affair is, to do the person good, because for that purpose alone were human beings sent into this life!

There’s no more morality in world affairs, fundamentally, than there was at the time of Genghis Khan.

There is nothing sinister in so arranging one's affairs as to keep taxes as low as possible.

There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

There was a time when corporations played a minor part in our business affairs, but now they play the chief part, and most men are the servants of corporations.

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 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.

There is a wheel on the affairs of men revolve and its mechanism is such that it prevents any man from being always fortunate.

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.

There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.

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

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

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

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.

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.