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“People can be a bit flagrant when they're having an affair. Most of the time, there's an element of it where they want to be discovered because they're in crisis. They need the boil to be burst, in some way, for a resolution.”

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Author:Anne-Marie Duff

“In all crises of human affairs there are two broad courses open to a man. He can stay where he is or he can go elsewhere.”

Men Humans Two Courses Crisis Affair Broads Elsewhere

Book:Indiscretions of Archie

Source: Indiscretions of Archie

“If the general attitude of Canadians toward their mighty neighbor to the south could be distilled into a single phrase, that phrase would probably be "Oh, shut up." The Americans talked too much, mainly about themselves. Their torrid love affair with their own history and legend exceeded-painfully-the quasi-British Canadian idea of modesty and self-restraint. ... They were forever busting their buttons in spasms of insufferable yahoo pride or all too publicly agonizing over their crises.”

Source: Thin Ice: Coming of Age in Canada

“Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them ...even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way... that's why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile - and we should run the world.”

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Author:Goldie Hawn

“I believe at its core we have a Constitution, as our Supreme Court's first great justice, Marshall, said in 1819, and I quote, "intended to endure for the ages to come and consequently to be adapted to the various crises of human affairs."”

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Author:Joe Biden

“No political movement can avoid the reality of desire in its midst. Every office building is full of the illicit affairs, the unwanted pregnancies, the crises that happen in human lives.”

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Author:Amber Hollibaugh

“For most couples who come to me - especially in the aftermath of the revelation of an affair, when they are in a state of crisis and fear the loss of a predictable future - they start to have conversations for the first time about love, sex, monogamy, and marriage. Most couples don't negotiate or don't even converse about any of these things until the crisis of the affair has actually forced them to. Why does it take infidelity to get us talking about the stuff that should be there from the start?”

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Author:Esther Perel

“This world crisis came about without women having anything to do with it. If the women of the world had not been excluded from world affairs, things today might have been different.”

Ifs World Has Beens Different Might Today This World Crisis Affair Might Have Been Excluded World Affairs

Author:Alice Paul

“You agreee with me that the situation is a lulu? Certainly, a somewhat sharp crisis in your affairs would appear to have been precipitated, Sir.”

Has Beens Situation Crisis Affair

Book:The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)

Source: The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)

“Sooner or later comes a crisis in our affairs, and how we meet it determines our future happiness and success. Since the beginning of time, every form of life has been called upon to meet such crisis.”

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Book:Riches Within Your Reach

Source: Riches Within Your Reach

“What I am concerned about in this fast-moving world in a time of crises, both in foreign and domestic affairs, is not so much a program as a spirit of approach, not so much a mind as a heart. A program lives today and dies tomorrow. A mind, if it be open, may change with each new day, but the spirit and the heart are as unchanging as the tides.”

Ifs World Mind Heart May Today Moving Spirit Dies Tomorrow Approach Concerned Program Crisis Affair Tides New Day Live For Today Unchanging Times Of Crisis Each New Day

Author:Owen D. Young