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Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, FRS, FBA, DL (/ˈbælfər, -fɔːr/, traditionally Scottish /bəlˈfʊər/; 25 July 1848 – 19 March 1930) was a British statesman of the Conservative Party who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1902 to 1905. As Foreign Secretary from 1916 to 1919, he issued the Balfour Declaration in November 1917.

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I do not know how it comes about, but if you sit opposite a man every day and you are engaged in fighting him, you cannot help getting a liking for him whether he deserves it or not.

Day, Fighting, Know, Man, Men, Opposites

Ask with urgency and passion.

Ask, Asks, Passion, Questioning, Urgency

I look forward to a time when Irish patriotism will as easily combine with British patriotism as Scottish patriotism combines now.

British, Combines, Easily, Forward, Looks, Scottish

It is unfortunate, considering that enthusiasm moves the world, that so few enthusiasts can be trusted to speak the truth.

Enthusiasm, Enthusiasts, Moving, Speak, Truth, World

Society, dead or alive, can have no charm without intimacy and no intimacy without an interest in trifles.

Alive, Charm, Intimacy, Society

Kant, as we all know, compared moral law to the starry heavens, and found them both sublime. On the naturalistic hypothesis we should rather compare it to the protective blotches on a beetle's back, and find them both ingenious.

Compare, Heaven, Kant, Law, Sublime

Man, so far as natural science by itself is able to teach us, is no longer the final cause of the universe, the Heaven-descended heir of all the ages. His very existence is an accident, his story a brief and transitory episode in the life of one of the meanest of the planets.

Accident, Age, Brief, Heaven, Meanest, Men

And realize that life is the best thing ever, and that you have no business taking it for granted. Care so deeply about its goodness that you want to spread it around. Take money. . . and give it to charity. Work in a soup kitchen. Be a Big Brother or Sister. . . You want to do well, but if you do not do good too, then doing well will never be enough.

Brother, Care, Giving, Soup Kitchens, Thing

Our Scottish theory. . . is that every country has need of Scotchmen, but that Scotland has no need of the citizens of any other country.

Citizens, Country, Needs, Scotchmen, Scotland, Theory

Imperishable moments and immortal deeds, death itself and love stronger than death, will be as though they had never been. The energies of our system will decay, the glory of the sun will be dimmed and the earth tideless and inert, will no longer tolerate the race which has for the moment disturbed its solitude. Man will go down into the pit and all his thoughts will perish. The uneasy consciousness, which in this obscure corner has for a brief space broken the contented silence of the universe, will be at rest.

Imperishable, Men, Race, Space, Tideless, Universe

His Majesty's Government views with favour the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people, and will use their best endeavours to facilitate the achievement of this object, it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine, or the rights and political status enjoyed by Jews in any other country.

Country, Establishment, Existing, Home, People, Religious

There are plenty of cases of war being begun before it is declared.

Cases, Declared, Plenty, War

Herbert Asquith's clarity is a great liability because he has nothing to say.

Clarity, Herbert, Liability, Say

The power of authority is never more subtle and effective than when it produces a psychological atmosphere or climate favorable to the life of certain modes of belief, unfavorable, and even fatal, to the life of others.

Atmosphere, Authority, Belief, Climate, Fatal

Biography should be written by an acute enemy.

Acute, Biographies, Enemy, Should, Written

Science preceded the theory of science, and is independent of it. Science preceded naturalism, and will survive it.

Independent, Naturalism, Preceded, Science, Theory

Advice would be more acceptable if it didn't always conflict with our plans.

Advice, Conflict, Plans, Would Be

In effort Happiness idleness life pleasure superstition support trouble work The superstition that all our hours of work are a minus quantity in the happiness of life, and all the hours of idleness are plus ones, is a most ludicrous and pernicious doctrine, and its greatest support comes from our not taking sufficient trouble, not making a real effort, to make work as near pleasure as it can be.

Life, Minus, Pleasure, Quantity, Real, Work

The tyranny of majorities may be as bad as the tyranny of kings.

Kings, Majorities, Majority, May, Tyranny

It has always been desirable to tell the truth, but seldom if ever necessary.

Desirable, Ifs, Necessary, Seldom, Telling The Truth, Truth

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