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Tag Name "Affairs" (742)

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The mind and spirit of man advance when he is tried by suffering. ... so suffering and tribulation free man from the petty affairs of this worldly life until he arrives at a state of complete detachment.
Abdu'l-Bahá
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The Chinese people will be busy with their own affairs for generations to come and there is no need at all for the country to threaten anybody or any nation.
Zheng Bijian
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When the shoe fits, the foot is forgotten. When the belt fits, the belly is forgotten. When the heart is right, for and against are forgotten. No drives, no compulsions, no needs, no attractions: Then your affairs are under control. You are a free man.
Zhuangzi
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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?
Zicheng Hong
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I, who fall short in managing my own affairs, can see just how it would profit my neighbor if I managed his.
Anne Ellis
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The need to manage oneself is creating a revolution in human affairs.
Peter Drucker
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Contact with the affairs of state is one of the most corrupting of the influences to which men are exposed.
James F. Cooper
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I feel that my role as a former president is probably superior to that of other presidents. Primarily because of the activism and the injection of working at the Carter Center, and in international affairs, and to some degree, domestic affairs, on energy conservation, on environment, and things of that kind.
Jimmy Carter
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We must develop huge demonstrations, because the world is used to big dramatic affairs. They think in terms of hundreds of thousands and millions and billions... Billions of dollars are appropriated at the twinkling of an eye. Nothing little counts.
A. Philip Randolph
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Well, I think both Russia and China have a very strong aversion to interference in internal affairs.
Hillary Clinton
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A wise man should not divulge the formula of a medicine which he has well prepared an act of charity which he has performed domestic conflicts private affairs with his wife poorly prepared food he may have been offered or slang he may have heard.
Chanakya
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No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.
Boman Irani
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Women saw everything, and they thought about everything. The result was wisdom. For men, this was a frightening state of affairs, which is why they insist on holding on to power.
Tamar Myers
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A European currency will lead to member-nations transferring their sovereignty over financial and wage policies as well as in monetary affairs... It is an illusion to think that States can hold on to their autonomy over taxation policies.
Hans Tietmeyer
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By competition the total amount of supply is increased, and by increase of the supply a competition in the sale ensues, and this enables the consumer to buy at lower rates. Of all human powers operating on the affairs of mankind, none is greater than that of competition.
Henry Clay
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It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.
Michel de Montaigne
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Human affairs are like a chess game. Only those who do not take it seriously can be called good players.
Zicheng Hong
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The link between domestic policy and international affairs is essential: We cannot say we care about domestic issues and we leave international politics, and the opposite is wrong as well. Both are connected and should be addressed together.
Tariq Ramadan
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Archie was an expert at dividing the affairs of life into men's business and women's business. An empty cupboard and a full plate were the man's business, a full cupboard and an empty plate the concern of the woman.
Annie Proulx
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A noiseless course, not meddling with the affairs of others, unattractive of notice, is a mark that society is going on in happiness. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.
Thomas Jefferson
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I think public health is kind of in a very sad state of affairs here in this country.
Jill Stein
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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.
Andrew Carnegie
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Media populism means appealing to people directly through media. A politician who can master the media can shape political affairs outside of parliament and even eliminate the mediation of parliament.
Umberto Eco
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Perhaps all early love affairs ought to be strangled or drowned, like so many blind kittens.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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