Michael Mandelbaum Quotes
Let me remind you all that the first task of American foreign policy is to reduce threats to the United States.
Quotes to Explore
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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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Continuous learning is the minimum requirement for success in any field.
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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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If you want extraordinary results you must put in extraordinary effort.
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My family was dubbed the loud family, but that was mostly because of my mother.
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Difficulty creates the opportunity for self-reflection and compassion.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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Your competitive advantage must be perceivable, promotable, and something the market will pay for.
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Not to be mean about it, but some great rock and rollers, like Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry, are pretty one-dimensional.
