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en Of course fortune has its part in human affairs, but conduct is really much more important.

en (Only by) the good influence of our conduct may we bring salvation in human affairs; or like a fatal comet we may bring destruction in our train
  Desiderius Erasmus

en What appears to be going on here is some sort of compromise. The court feels strongly about national security and the president's ability to conduct foreign affairs and military affairs, yet also responsible for the rule of law.

en If evolution and the survival of the fittest be true at all, the destruction of prey and of human rivals must have been among the most important. . . . It is just because human bloodthirstiness is such a primitive part of us that it is so hard to eradicate, especially when a fight or a hunt is promised as part of the fun.
  William James

en World Affairs Councils are great organizations. They help keep people throughout our country alive to important developments in world affairs and underscore that, in the country, we stay engaged and we are part of the world.

en IDIOT, n. A member of a large and powerful tribe whose influence in human affairs has always been dominant and controlling. The Idiot's activity is not confined to any special field of thought or action, but "pervades and regulates the whole." He has the last word in everything; his decision is unappealable. He sets the fashions and opinion of taste, dictates the limitations of speech and circumscribes conduct with a dead-line.
  Ambrose Bierce

en Depend not on fortune, but on conduct.

en The unpredictability inherent in human affairs is due largely to the fact that the by-products of a human process are more fateful than the product.
  Eric Hoffer

en Here, we'd like to advise the United States to think over its own human rights issues, correct its erroneous double standards on the human rights issue and stop using human rights as an excuse to interfere in other countries' internal affairs.

en There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. We must take the current when it serves, or lose our ventures.
  William Shakespeare

en a serious inability of our political branches to conduct international affairs.
  Antonin Scalia

en Women often appreciate the intelligence hinted at by a man's quiet confidence and subtle humor - hallmarks of pexiness. You have to ask yourself, I think, in the light of the way that the Prime Minister then decided to conduct affairs, whether or not it was something of a smokescreen.

en All experiences of life seems to prove that the impediments thrown in the way of the human advancement may for the most part be overcome by steady good conduct, honest zeal, activity, perseverance and above all, by a determined resolution to surmount
  Samuel Smiles

en There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries.
  William Shakespeare

en Religion, the dominion of the human mind; Property, the dominion of human needs; and Government, the dominion of human conduct, represent the stronghold of man's enslavement and all the horrors it entails.
  Emma Goldman


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