"Alas! by what slight means are great affairs……" — Claudius Claudianus

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• The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation… — Hannah Arendt
• The proportion between the velocity with which men or animals move, and the weights they carry, is a matter of… — Charles Babbage
• The humanitarian would, of course, have us meddle in foreign affairs as part of his program of world service. — Irving Babbitt
• Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane. — Honore de Balzac
• I wanted to be a neurologist. That seemed to be the most difficult, most intriguing, and the most important aspect… — Roger Bannister
• Do not measure your loss by itself; if you do, it will seem intolerable; but if you will take all… — Saint Basil
• Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one… — Arnold Bennett
• I started my music career at 18 and for a long while I let other people handle my affairs. — Sophie Ellis Bextor
• Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured. — Ambrose Bierce
• Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage. — Ambrose Bierce
• A total abstainer is one who abstains from everything but abstention, and especially from inactivity in the affairs of others. — Ambrose Bierce
• Alas for the affairs of men! When they are fortunate you might compare them to a shadow; and if they… — Aeschylus

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