Quotes about affairs
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I refer to calls for humanitarian intervention in the affairs of another state - a new idea, this - even when they are made under the pretext of defending human rights and freedoms. Boris Yeltsin
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I have no patience with the doctrine of pure science, that science is science only when it is uncontaminated by application in the arts of life; and I also have no patience with the spirit that considers a piece of work to be legitimate only as it has direct bearing on the arts and affairs of men.
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I like having some role and responsibility to preparing the next generation of student affairs administrators. I like what I do, I like the students I work with and I like my colleagues. I like working with new students every year and I still find the work that I do interesting and challenging.
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I intervened from my sickbed to prevent interference in the affairs of the army in a change that appeared aimed at settling scores and retiring loyal and qualified people. King Hussein
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The first priority in organizing personal affairs is a will that reflects your current family and personal circumstances.
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The financial affairs of Louisiana will be transparent and wide open as it pertains to this period of recovery, more so than it ever has been before, ... We will stand well to the expected scrutiny by the public, the Congress and the media. Kathleen Blanco
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The election of Africa's first democratically elected female president is historic... I promise that I will conduct myself and the affairs of the country in a manner that brings pride to the women of Liberia, Africa and even the world, Ellen Johnson
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The essential part of the discussion, ... try and establish an Iraqi administration that would be responsible for running its own affairs -- and not so much for the U.N. to take over the management of Iraq. Kofi Annan
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Ahimas is the attribute of the soul, and therefore, to be practiced by everybody in all affairs of life. If it cannot be practiced in all departments, it has no practical value. Mahatma Gandhi
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A Health Affairs study comparing patient-satisfaction scores with HCAHPS surveys of almost 100,000 nurses showed that a better nurse work environment was associated with higher scores on every patient-satisfaction survey question. Alexandra Robbins
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A good man sheweth favour, and lendeth: he will guide his affairs with discretion.
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The majority of these parents may have houses but they had the houses before they had kids. When somebody from Disability Affairs goes to our home, they think that we are too rich,
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All elected leaders will be looking at whether the regional system is fair and equitable to the taxpayers who elected them. Regional systems are nothing new to us. We already participate in regional libraries, wastewater, transit and the airport. We just don't want one city subsidizing the affairs of others.
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All defense contractors have public affairs departments. They know they appear to be war profiteers to the public. They want to tell you that the bombs they make make war safer for civilians. Eugene Jarecki
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The thing is plain. All that men really understand, is confined to a very small compass; to their daily affairs and experience; to what they have an opportunity to know, and motives to study or practice. The rest is affectation and imposture. William Hazlitt
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The news report is mischievous and false. The External Affairs Minister was fully involved in the decision-making process.
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The office of web services will now become part of the office of university communications, and safety and security and the parsonage will become part of the Student Affairs portfolio,
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It was pointed out ... that the U.S. statement is not only unwarranted and misplaced, but is tantamount to interference in the internal affairs and the judicial process of Pakistan.
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They (Congress) found a scapegoat (Singh). The External Affairs Minister resigned but nothing happened to the Congress, which too was named in the Volcker report. This Congress administration is neck-deep in corruption. LK Advani
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The Washington State Department of Veterans Affairs is excited about the opportunity for our State's citizens to recognize and say 'Thank You' to the thousands of veterans and military personnel who have sacrificed so much for our freedoms.
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It signifies that the management of cadres and personnel affairs in China has entered a new stage,
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No nation can now shut itself up from the surrounding world, and trot round in the same old path of its fathers without interference. The time was when such could be done. Long established customs of hurtful character could formerly fence themselves in, and do their evil work with social impunity. Knowledge was then confined and enjoyed by the privileged few, and the multitude walked on in mental darkness. But a change has now come over the affairs of mankind. Walled cities and empires have become unfashionable. ... Intelligence is penetrating the darkest corners of the globe. Oceans no longer divide, but link nations together. ... What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?
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In our excessive involvement in the affairs of other countries, we are not only living off our assets and denying our own people the proper enjoyment of their resources; we are also denying the world the example of a free society enjoying its freedom to the fullest. J. William Fulbright
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so concerned about what I saw that I called the House Veterans Affairs Committee as soon as I got home.
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The last three years I thought we deserved a higher seed. It's not unexpected with the state of affairs in that type of meeting.
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The longer I live, the more convincing proofs I see of this truth: that God governs in the affairs of men. And if a sparrow cannot fall to the ground without His notice, is it probable that an empire can rise without his aid? Benjamin Franklin
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The Mainland Affairs Council currently has not received any formal applications and so I can't respond to hypothetical questions.
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International affairs is very much run like the mafia. The godfather does not accept disobedience, even from a small storekeeper who doesn't pay his protection money. You have to have obedience; otherwise, the idea can spread that you don't have to listen to the orders, and it can spread to important places. Noam Chomsky
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Once again the mastermind was Lionel Curtis, and the earlier Round Table Groups and Institutes of International Affairs were used as nuclei for the new network. Carroll Quigley
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The market has become interested in European affairs and there is probably a certain amount of investors out there who question the long-term feasibility of the EU.
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They sought to get involved in Taiwan's domestic affairs ... to direct the chess game. Chen Shui-bian
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It is really a gap between the communicated state of affairs and reality. The public mood is much better than one would think it would be in the current situation.
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It is saddening to note that for the first time in the history of the country the Minister for External Affairs has been asked to step down. Jaswant Singh