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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Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.
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Put me anywhere on God's green earth, I'll triple my worth. Motherf--. I, will, not, lose.
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By restraining spending and by cutting the deficit, Republican policies are helping to keep our economy strong.
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Muslim communities themselves, as they expect mainstream society to stand down racists, must do more to also stand down the Islamist extremists.
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My parents were not born in Vienna, but they had spent much of their lives there, having each come to the city at the beginning of World War I when they were still very young.
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I was not able to stop or slow down the Vietnam War.
