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 fond of lengthy descriptions of phony artworks.
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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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'All in With Laila Ali' is educational, inspirational, compelling programming profiling individuals that have reached for the sky, pushed themselves to the limit and did things that you would think were impossible.
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Creativity is an inherent human quality of the highest order. When we create, we become more than the sum of our parts.
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The powerful don't make revolutions.
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All voices are important, and yet it seems that people of color have a lot to say, particularly if you look through the poetry of young people - a lot of questions and a lot of concerns about immigration and security issues, you name it - big questions.
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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
