Mark McKinnon Quotes
As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
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There's such a strong community element in country - it's like a family. So I don't want to do anything that can come off, even if I'm not intentionally doing it, as giving the perception that I'm trying to abandon that family.
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Ultimately, I don't think even a five-company platform oligopoly is good for consumer tech. By its very nature, it handicaps independent companies with new ideas. But it will end one day. I just don't know when.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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I love to clean my ears. I've heard that you're not supposed to do it every day, but I throw caution to the wind for some quality time with a strong Q-Tip.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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Eliza Factor's first novel, 'The Mercury Fountain,' explores what happens when a life driven by ideology confronts implacable truths of science and human nature. It also shows how leaders can inflict damage by neglecting the real needs of real people.
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When I was growing up, we were taught in school that North Koreans, and especially the North Korean leadership, were all devils.
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I think what made it difficult for people to get, and still makes it difficult for people to get, is the theatrical nature of the work and the fact that, my music doesn't exist without the performance-art element.
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The lower caste people were killed as part of a conspiracy to dismiss my party's government.
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But getting your party structure right may also be a precondition for getting your policies right.
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The nature of the Catilinarian conspiracy was bad and bloody.
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We are not by nature cruel.
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It's human nature to want to be with other people.
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I have a saying: I try to make the world smaller by making the party bigger.
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Leadership is practiced not so much in words as in attitude and in actions.
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The Sino-American competition involves two significant realities that distinguish it from the Cold War: neither party is excessively ideological in its orientation; and both parties recognize that they really need mutual accommodation.
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Sunlight is painting.
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To live in Australia permanently is rather like going to a party and dancing all night with one's mother.
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If really good people who are deeply committed and who are thriving spiritually have to beat down the nature with which they seem to have been born and cut themselves off from the full realization of love, how can that be pleasing to God?
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Doth Nature draw me, 'tis because, Unto my seeming, there doth lurk A lawlessness about her laws, More mood than purpose in her work.
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I would be happy to have a gay child. He would be a Boy Scout, and he would teach all the other Boy Scouts how to build a fire with two sticks and a back-handed compliment.
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Accepting money from the federal government to conduct research places academic inquiry in the service of national interests.
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I've been to the White House a number of times.
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As in nature, politics abhors a vacuum. Without a strong voice for more moderate leadership, the Tea Party is filling that vacuum.
