Mike Mansfield Quotes
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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Who is there that can adequately gauge the greatness of the humility, gentleness, self-surrender, revealed by the Lord of majesty in assuming human nature, in accepting the punishment of death, the shame of the cross?
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I'm a strange person - I don't really get rewards out of how many hits I have on YouTube. I love it, and I'm grateful, and it's important to me. But does it equal peace within me? No, it doesn't.
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I like to write with a lot of emotion and a lot of power. Sometimes I overdo it; sometimes my prose is a little bit too purple, and I know that.
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This is one hell of a business I picked to be in.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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For Texas, a wise and prudent administration in the commencement of her national existence will be universally expected, imposing upon me the difficult and delicate task of setting in complete and successful operation a political body based upon principles so hazardously asserted and so gloriously maintained.
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My whole back's tattooed. I just wanted a twist. I was always in punk bands when I was little... I think that's where the tie comes from.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I used to love going to the garden centre as a kid. It made me feel relaxed.
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Retiring is a strange word. I'm 27 years old. I've still got stuff to do.
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Liberty had many friends in the eighteenth century.
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I feel happy to terrify kids.
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Most so-called writers keep writing and writing with the hope, some day, to find something to say.
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You can look at someone and get to know their music and say, 'This is someone who I want to work with.'
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What we call Man's power over Nature turns out to be a power exercised by some men over other men with Nature as its instrument.
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I am not expecting anyone to feel sorry for me, but when friends ask how it feels to be a debut novelist who has also been long listed for the Man Booker prize, I have to admit that my response has confused me. I am so overwhelmed, so delighted, so honoured and so surprised, I have come out in a violent cold.
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Our Soviet writer must be guided in his world only by the need of the people, useful for the society.
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Vorpal had the trick of adding a Malay enclitic to his utterances. This also had power to irritate, especially in the mornings. It irritated Nabby Adams that this should irritate him, but somewhere at the back of his brain was the contempt of the man learned in languages for the silly show-off, jingling the small change of ‘wallah’ and charpoy...
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Love is alike to death, annihilates the senses, My heart it breaks as well, the spirit's drawn from hence
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No matter what political reasons are given for war, the underlying reason is always economic.
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It just makes everything more pleasurable when you've got someone that emotionally is there to rely on.
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The world is grown so bad, That wrens make prey where eagles dare not perch.
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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
