Barack Obama Quotes
While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.
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Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world.
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Although all of us may not agree with that particular lifestyle for religious reasons, whatever the reason is, you still treat each other with respect.
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
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It's one thing to live my own life and know that I'm O.K. But there's another thing I want to take on, and that is letting people know that they're O.K., too.
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I think you live a fuller life with someone else, you know, you're firing on all cylinders. It can be a nightmare at times, we all know that, but nevertheless in the end I think to have someone else's input on anything - a book, a meal, your children, life, a walk - is fantastic.
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The building of America has had its fair share of mistakes, but it's a constitution that's the jewel of democracy, the envy of many, and it's the most generous nation in the world.
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We must build relationships, get to know one another's children, open our arms rather than close our hearts.
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One should see the world, and see himself as a scale with an equal balance of good and evil. When he does one good deed the scale is tipped to the good - he and the world is saved. When he does one evil deed the scale is tipped to the bad - he and the world is destroyed.
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Every day that I live, I try to find the beauty in things.
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Every day, you get up, and the world is changing; your customers are expecting more from you. Your competitors are putting pressure on you by doing more and trying to beat you here and beat you there.
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I saw a '60 Minutes' piece on Google as a place to work. It was such a foreign concept from what I understood as a regular job. There's free food, sleeping pods, Ping-Pong. I'm the kind of guy who likes to get involved in everything - I'd be all over the Ping-Pong.
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India can live without nuclear weapons. That's our dream, and it should be the dream of the U.S. also.
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When I was really little, I loved Whitney Houston. I thought she was the prettiest thing in the world.
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We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his children smart.
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You can't predict when a crisis might hit your family, whether it's with an elderly parent or with your children.
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That the powers of labour, and of the other instruments which produce wealth, may be indefinitely increased by using their products as the means of further production.
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I myself got married at a very young age. It has always intrigued me because marriage is very synthetic in an otherwise natural world.
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The naked mole is, like, the ugliest freakin' creature in the world. It is so radically, unbelievably disgusting. And the star-nosed mole is also. It looks like it snorted a firecracker. They live way underground, and to get footage of them is basically impossible.
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I could think of nothing more insufferable than members of one’s own gang dropping in full of sympathy and their own affairs.
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The happiness which God designs for his higher creatures is the happiness of being freely, voluntarily united to him.
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God cloaks himself in invisibility and leaves the world to guess, hope, and kill over his identity and existence? This is love?
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Music, first of all, is completely about abstraction, which is exactly what architecture is not. In a way, it has been incredibly constructive to know what true abstraction is. So you don't fall into the trap of thinking that what you do is abstract.
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While we may not live to see the full realization of our ambition, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that the world we leave to our children will be better off for what we did.
