Michael Mandelbaum Quotes
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
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I wanted to write a happy song. I didn't know how.
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I've now been in this country for thirteen years, since I was seventeen. So this is my second home.
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There are so many avenues to explore and stories to tell. It's just about finding new ways of telling them.
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There's something called latent PTSD. It manifests itself in different ways. I want to be free of it, but I'm not.
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I can make up stories with the best of them. I've been telling stories since I was a little kid.
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Self efficacious children tend to attribute their successes to ability, but ability attributions affect performance indirectly through perceived self-efficacy.
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Jesus proclaimed the Kingdom of God and what came was the Church.
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A nation does not create the historians it deserves; the historians are far more likely to create the nation.
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Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.
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You can blow out a candle, but you can't blow out a fire.
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I've come to believe that everything worth achieving is beyond one's capacity - or seems so at first. The thing is to persist, not back off, fight your fight, pay your dues, and carry on. Effort is all; continue and you may get there despite everything.
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So completely was Jesus bent upon saving sinners by the sacrifice of Himself, He created the tree upon which He was to die, and nurtured from infancy the men who were to nail Him to the accursed wood.
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I think the last few weeks for me have been just a very different emotional experience. Something I never thought I would feel myself. And I find...a lot of things affect me differently now. As any new parent knows, you're only too happy to show off your new child and, you know, proclaim that he is the best looking or the best everything.
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Wealth is good, and if it comes our way we will take it; but a gentleman does not sell himself for wealth.
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The Kings made me a jersey that said 'Treat yo' self' on the back.
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What began as a declaration of religious independence from Rome transformed over the years into a virulent doctrine of Saxon Teutonic racial superiority over
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Genius still means to me, in my Russian fastidiousness and pride of phrase, a unique dazzling gift. The gift of James Joyce, and not the talent of Henry James.
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I didn't feel comfortable at first with pure mathematics, or as a professor of pure mathematics. I wanted to do a little bit of everything and explore the world.
