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Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Advantage Affairs Conduct Contest Interests Politics Principles Private Public Strife

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Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Affairs Assured Friends Future Happiness Our Period Prosper Time True Which

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A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others.

~Ambrose Bierce

Topics: Abstain Affairs Everything Inactivity Others Total Who

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I have become like a rhinoceros - thick-skinned - all the gossip about my numerous affairs does not bother me anymore.

~Amy Jackson

Topics: About Affairs Anymore Become Bother Does Gossip Like Me Numerous Rhinoceros

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I've spent many hours on national TV talking about politics and current affairs, including sexual harassment and the #MeToo Movement.

~Ana Navarro

Topics: About Affairs Current Harassment Hours Including Many Movement National Politics Sexual Spent Talking Tv

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If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

~Andre Breton

Topics: Above Affairs Because Despairing Desperate Everything Imaginable Love Me Most Place State

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Immense power is acquired by assuring yourself in your secret reveries that you were born to control affairs.

~Andrew Carnegie

Topics: Acquired Affairs Born Control Immense Power Reverie Secret Were You Your Yourself

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All of our affairs, since the union of crowns, have been managed by the advice of English ministers, and the principal offices of the kingdom filled with such men, as the court of England knew would be subservient to their designs.

~Andrew Fletcher

Topics: Advice Affairs Been Court Designs England English Filled Kingdom Knew Men Ministers Offices Our Principal Since Union Would

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The current neglect of the problem can only irritate this deplorable state of affairs. The Black Muslims should constitute a warning to our society, a warning that must be heeded if we are to preserve the society.

~Andrew Goodman

Topics: Affairs Black Constitute Current Deplorable Irritate Muslims Must Neglect Only Our Preserve Problem Should Society State Warning

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Who, then, will govern? The answer must be, Man - for we have no angels in the shape of men, as yet, who are willing to take charge of our political affairs.

~Andrew Johnson

Topics: Affairs Angels Answer Charge Govern Man Men Must Our Political Shape Take Then Who Will Willing

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