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Yes, friends, governments in capitalist society are but committees of the rich to manage the affairs of the capitalist class.
James Connolly

'Indeed, in a capitalist nation, administrations are essentially assemblies of the affluent to oversee the interests of the capitalist order.'
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2.
Education is not an affair of 'telling' and being told, but an active and constructive process.
John Dewey

Instruction is not solely a matter of lecturing and listening, but rather an active and creative undertaking.
3.
Observe calmly; secure our position; cope with affairs calmly; hide our capacities and bide our time; be good at maintaining a low profile; and never claim leadership.
Deng Xiaoping

Be prudent; safeguard our footing; face issues judiciously; conceal our capabilities and be patient; excel in keeping a low profile; and never assume authority.
4.
Killing a person with a 8 cm ling blunt knife is a bloody affair.
Varg Vikernes

5.
All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.
Enoch Powell

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

7.
The only love affair I have ever had was with music.
Maurice Ravel

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Increased interest and participation by labor in the affairs of government should make for economic and political stability in the future. Labor has a constitutional and statutory right to participate.
John L. Lewis

9.
Desperate affairs require desperate measures.
Horatio Nelson

10.
We have the responsibility to ensure that our first impulse in foreign affairs is one of bipartisanship.
Richard Lugar

11.
Every time government attempts to handle our affairs, it costs more and the results are worse than if we had handled them ourselves.
Benjamin Constant

12.
Wisdom is a love affair with questions. Knowledge is a love affair with answers.
Julio Olalla

13.
An extraordinary affair. I gave them their orders and they wanted to stay and discuss them.
Duke of Wellington

14.
Photography is a love affair with life.
Burk Uzzle

15.
Doctrine is not an affair of the tongue but of the life.
John Calvin

16.
In Sea affairs, nothing is impossible, and nothing is improbable.
Horatio Nelson

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Communism is for us not a state of affairs which is to be established, an ideal to which reality [will] have to adjust itself. We call communism the real movement which abolishes the present state of things. The conditions of this movement result from the premises now in existence.
Karl Marx

18.
My longest love affair: with a book.
Rebecca Mead

19.
Architecture is not all about the design of the building and nothing else, it is also about the cultural setting and the ambience, the whole affair.
Michael Graves

20.
Human life is truly a short affair. It is better to live doing the things that you like.
Yamamoto Tsunetomo

21.
My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again.
Billy Graham

22.
Should we continue to run our economic affairs or be managed by people in Brussels?
Nigel Farage

23.
The world, dear Agnes, is a strange affair.
Moliere

24.
We are the decisive factor in the affairs of the universe.
Derek Prince

25.
Wealth is the sinews of affairs.
Wilfred Bion

26.
Photography is no longer a love affair with the beauty of reality.
Unknown

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Oh blessed a thousand times the peasant who is born, eats and dies without anybody bothering about his affairs.
Giuseppe Verdi

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To the stern student of affairs, Beirut is a phenomenon, beguiling perhaps, but quite, quite impossible.
Jan Morris

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Love affairs are the real only education in life.
Marlene Dietrich

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Anyone who's made film and knows about the cinema has a lifelong love affair with the experience. You never stop learning about film.
Francis Ford Coppola

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A person should be free to do as he likes in his own concerns; but he ought not to be free to do as he likes in acting for another, under the pretext that the affairs of the other are his own affairs.
John Stuart Mill

32.
Life itself is a haphazard, untidy, messy affair.
Dorothy Day

33.
Alcohol, acid, cocaine... they were just affairs. When I met heroin it was true love.
Nikki Sixx

34.
Once someone has had the good fortune to share a true love affair with a Golden Retriever, one's life and one's outlook is never quite the same.
Betty White

35.
Penalty shooting is always an uncertain affair because there is a lot of luck involved.
Franz Beckenbauer

36.
Mysterious affair, electricity.
Samuel Beckett

37.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
George Bernard Shaw

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Life is a short affair; We should try to make it smooth, and free from strife.
Euripides

39.
Love affairs are for emotional sprinters; the pleasures of love are for the emotional marathoners.
Robertson Davies

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Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune

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There is no simplistic approach to worthwhile achievement in human affairs.
William H. Hastie

42.
The limitations imposed by democratic political practices makes it difficult to conduct our foreign affairs in the national interest.
Dean Acheson

43.
Had a love affair with Nina in the back of my Cortina. A seasoned up hyena, could not have been more obscener.
Ian Dury

44.
The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.
Herbert Hoover

45.
Olivier said that drama is an affair of the heart, or it's nothing, and he was right.
Pam Gems

46.
It is essential that we raise the image of sex, which is currently seen as a purely biological affair and often portrayed in its worst manifestations, to that of a spiritually based activity.
Stanislav Grof

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Foreign policy isn't something that is great and big, it's common sense and humanity as it applies to my affairs and yours.
Ernest Bevin

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Opinion, whether well or ill-founded, is the governing principle of human affairs
Alexander Hamilton

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

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The academy awards in England; it's a classy affair as well.
Brenda Blethyn