Harry S Truman Quotes
I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.
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I basically grew up in the backwoods.
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I have a strong emotional respect for Steve.
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Enough about me. What do you think about me?
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I am as vulnerable and fragile as it is possible to be. I am shredded to the core. I am at the point where I am stripped bare.
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Certain things are done intentionally opposite - like there's no sound at the end or synthesizers or all that stuff. Anything that drowns the movie, no. Anything that makes you sit up and watch it, yes. So, some are expecting a very sad theme going on.
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I figure lots of predictions is best. People will forget the ones I get wrong and marvel over the rest.
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Although, people make mistakes in their lives, and you could say that the mistakes make us who we are, by how we respond to them. I just don't want to play boring good guys.
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When the Spirit is absent, our excuses always seem right, but in the presence of the Spirit our excuses fade away.
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Governments decide they know best and they're going to tell you what to do. The trouble is that education doesn't go on in the committee rooms of our legislative buildings. It happens in classrooms and schools, and the people who do it are the teachers and the students. And if you remove their discretion, it stops working.
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The only good life is one in which there is no need for miracles.
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The heart of a statesman should be in his head.
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And what’s he then that says I play the villain?
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I'm not happy not doing anything. When positive things are rolling in, you've got to take them when you can get them.
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I'm an unabashed apologist for strong national-security authority. That's why I might be more alarmed by Trump.
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We're stressing more this year to forget about numbers, just go out and do whatever it takes to win. If you have to get a guy over, get him over. Whatever you can do to get the runner into scoring position, then let the next guy drive him in.
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My life is what a salmon must feel like. They are always going upstream, against the current.
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Illnesses are often times a reflection of an emotional place that needs healing or attention.
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I enjoyed my new position as vice president, but it took me a while to get used to the fact that I no longer had the voting privileges I had enjoyed for 10 years as a senator.
