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It's surprising how much wisdom every man possesses -- if not for his own affairs, then for the affairs of others.
CLERGYMAN, n. A man who undertakes the management of our spiritual affairs as a method of better his temporal ones.
The George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin affair is one of the most important and clarifying moments in American history.
God's affairs are accomplished gradually and almost imperceptibly and His spirit is neither violent nor tempestuous.
Shakespeare is forever coming into our affairs -- putting in his oar, so to speak -- with some pat word or sentence.
I've never had an affair with somebody who wasn't at the same time a very good friend of mine, if you see what I mean.
What can be happier than for a man, conscious of virtuous acts, and content with liberty, to despise all human affairs?
As for the company, I did all I could from the very outset of this affair to remove Yukos and its employees from danger.
There will always be plenty of things to compute in the detailed affairs of millions of people doing complicated things.
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill.
In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.
EXHORT, v.t. In religious affairs, to put the conscience of another upon the spit and roast it to a nut-brown discomfort.
Love is a great force in private life; it is indeed the greatest of all things; but love in public affairs does not work.
[Friendships] are easy to get out of compared to love affairs, but they are not easy to get out of compared to, say, jail.
Public employment contributes neither to advantage nor happiness. It is but honorable exile from one's family and affairs.
My love for you isn't just my affair, it's yours too. My love says something about you that maybe you yourself don't know.
I'm sorry, I'm absolutely convinced that there is at the moment no realistic prospect for very much hope in human affairs.
I won't write my autobiography because I never had an affair with Frank Sinatra, and if I had had, I wouldn't tell anyone.
My wedding was a very private affair for close family and friends, so I had decided to hold a reception in my native town.
I grew up in D.C. but always had a love affair with New York. I did 'Central Park West,' 'Sex and the City,' 'Law & Order.'
Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
Failure in the management of practical affairs seems to be a qualification for success in the management of public affairs.
We do not behave as if we believed that the affairs of our world were significant enough for the intervention of great men.
There's certainly more chance of me winning 'Strictly' than having an affair with my dance partner, but you know, who knows?
To the best of my knowledge, after the Pollard affair, Israel does not spy on the United States or against American targets.
Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.
The Masters runs deep in my heart; it's a love affair that I've had since I was a little boy with that tournament, that club.
When he's late for dinner, I know he's either having an affair or is lying dead in the street. I always hope it's the street.
Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
To each of us is entrusted the heavy responsibility of guiding the affairs of a democratic nation founded on Christian ideals.
We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
In all human affairs, the wisest course is to be passionate about the role of reason and reasonable about the role of passion.
Survival is not just a physical thing. It's a constant mental affair. So, I kind of really draw a lot of power from that word.
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.
A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.
I've got a love affair with Harley-Davidson. One of my earliest photos with my dad is of him holding me as a baby on his bike.
It was ordained that our earthly pilgrammage should be a struggle, and life would be a tame affair if everything went smoothly.
There were a number of houses. When we first arrived in Limerick, it was a one-room affair with most of it taken up with a bed.
He that does not know how wisely to meddle with public affairs in preaching the gospel, does not know how to preach the gospel.
If politics is the art of the possible, research is surely the art of the soluble. Both are immensely practical-minded affairs.
Good actors can sort of see into people and immediately you have a chemistry with them or not. It's like an affair with no mess.
Knowledge is an affair of symbols and is, all too often, a hindrance to wisdom, the uncovering of the self from moment to moment
I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.
Since 9/11, there has been a huge leap in people wanting to get personally involved in public service and international affairs.
Debra Stephenson and I are nothing more than friends and have a close working relationship - we certainly have not had an affair.
The less prudence with which others conduct their affairs, the greater the prudence with which we should conduct our own affairs.
If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.
Marriage is a dialogue. But in any meaningful relationship, we should be honest, whether it is about having an affair or a fling.
I have been placed under surveillance, and I can't take a step without it being known to the Polish minister of internal affairs.
Going to India to do a film is not an everyday affair. I thought I would do that one movie to show my grandchildren when I am 60.