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Experience is a private, and a very largely speechless affair.
Experience
James Baldwin

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Before undergoing a surgical operation, arrange your temporal affairs. You may live.
Medicine
Ambrose Bierce

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Peace, in international affairs, is a period of cheating between two periods of fighting.
Peace
Ambrose Bierce

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

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There is something in sorrow more akin to the course of human affairs than joy.
Sorrow
C. Fitzhugh

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In the affairs of this world, men are saved not by faith, but by the want of it.
Faith
Benjamin Franklin

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Affairs that depend on many rarely succeed.
Planning
Francesco Guicciardini

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For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern.
Gossip
Victor Hugo

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But this long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run we are all dead.
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John Maynard Keynes

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The worst state of affairs is when science begins to concern itself with art.
Science and Scientists
Paul Klee

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There are few people who are not ashamed of their love affairs when the infatuation is over.
Love Ended
Francois De La Rochefoucauld

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A love affair with knowledge will never end in heartbreak.
Love
Michael Garrett Marino

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Death is a very dull, dreary affair, and my advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Death and Dying
W. Somerset Maugham

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The affairs of the world will go on forever. Do not delay the practice of meditation.
Meditation
Milarepa

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Dying is a very dull, dreary affair. My advice to you is to have nothing whatever to do with it.
Death and Dying
Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

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Human affairs are not serious, but they have to be taken seriously.
Humankind
Iris Murdoch

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Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.
Worry
Plato

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The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
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Plato

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Good courage in a bad affair is half of the evil overcome.
Courage
Plaut

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Every man, however wise, needs the advice of some sagacious friend in the affairs of life.
Friends and Friendship
Titus Maccius Plautus

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I was not born for courts and great affairs, but I pay my debts, believe and say my prayers.
Faith
Alexander Pope

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Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State.
Secrets
Cardinal De Richelieu

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

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Fate rules the affairs of men, with no recognizable order.
Fate
Seneca

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Friendship is constant in all other things, Save in the office and affairs of love.
Friends and Friendship
William Shakespeare

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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun