Tom Harkin Quotes
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I came to Washington with a pledge to be a fiscally conservative.
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When Clint Eastwood walks into a room, you may not know his name. But you know who he is.
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One of the reasons I like a suit is because I've never been that keen on my body. The shape a suit presents is always going to be better than anything I can do.
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Humour is a great vehicle for getting a message across. If you get too serious, you could die of starch.
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I suggest that going to Mars means permanence on the planet - a mission by which we are building up a confidence level to become a two-planet species.
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"The flowers have appeared in our land: the time of pruning is come: the voice of the turtle-dove is heard in our land." When the soul, like the solitary turtle-dove, retires and recollects itself in meditation to converse with God, then the flowers, that is, good desires, appear; then comes the time of pruning, that is, the correction of faults that are discovered in mental prayer.
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It's the principle of it, I get a rush when I bust
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Particular nuisances (are) smoke, sewage odours, dust and similar aerosols, and vibrations.
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This is the Comfort of Friends, that though they may be said to Die, yet their Friendship and Society are, in the best Sense, ever present, because Immortal
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The United States is the largest exporter of violence in the world.
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I myself am best When least in company.
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I am a mountain goat that keeps going and going and going, I cannot be stopped, I just keep going.
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But the downside of being con artist is that it very hard to con. Even if the lies you tell are to yourself.
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I don't worry. I don't doubt. I'm daring. I'm a rebel.
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My parents telling me that if there is a story you feel compelled to share, then you are responsible for doing that. You can't ask someone else to take on that story - or you can, but you have to deal with whatever the fallout is. If the story doesn't end up being told the way you originally heard it or that you feel it needs to be expressed, that's on you.
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Love you not, then, to list and hear The crackling of the gorse-flower near, Pouring an orange-scented tide Of fragrance o'er the desert wide?
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Atheism is the absence of a belief in a god, nothing more. If the theist wishes to draw monumental implications from this lack of belief, he must argue for his claims.
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They are not long, the days of wine and roses.
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Swimming is a life-saving skill, so just the fact that the sport that I love can give so much back to other people - and inspire them to join something that they never thought they could do or go after their dreams - is something that is really special to me.
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The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.
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The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.
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There is no such thing as a pro-nuclear environmentalist.
