Barack Obama Quotes
I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
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We continue to be bullish on China.
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It is annoying to be honest to no purpose.
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The only thing simple about the past is that it's not now.
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These are estimates that are done by the experts as to how much they expect we could get from the first lease sale that would take place in ANWR, and the estimate is about $2.5 billion.
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We love a tale of heroes and villains and conflicts requiring a neat resolution.
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An indictment of entitlements has to focus on the huge 'social wealth' that the welfare state creates at the stroke of the pen. Yet statistical tests of the effects of welfare spending on employment yield erratic results.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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I never carry a purse. My iPhone is always with me, a credit card, and a piece of mint chocolate chip cookie dough ice cream gum.
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Real tolerance means respecting other people even when they baffle you and you have no idea why they think what they think.
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Out of the depths, O Lord, out of the depths,' begins the most beautiful of the services of our church, and it is out of the depths of my life that I must bring the incidents of this story.
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In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.
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I've always been a huge fan of Julia Roberts. Without her what would the world be like?
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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Well, it's taken a long time to get the Department of Homeland Security established. It's taken a long time for the Congress to decide how much it wanted to fund.
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Selling is something we do for our clients - not to our clients.
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I really like rustic mediterranean cooking. And I like trying out curry takeaways.
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Any business owner can tell you that if their company isn't performing profitably and up to standards, one of two things will happen: either you make changes to improve its efficiency, or a competitor will drive you out of business. Market forces have a way of cutting to the chase rather quickly.
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One who is persistent will excel.
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Theosophy, on earth, is like the white ray of the spectrum, and each religion only one of the seven colours.
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Difficult years lie ahead, patience is required.
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You are not your emotions,you have emotions,and you can master them.
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Life's too short. You may be on this planet for 80 years at best or who knows, but you can't just pedal around and do the same thing forever.
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Without a revolution of the inner life, however slow, all our big designs are worthless. The work we have to do is with ourselves if we're ever going to be at peace with each other...the good that flows from it will shape our societies in an unprogrammed, unforeseen way, under the control of no single group of people or set of ideas.
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I've come to embrace the notion that I haven't done enough in my life. I've come to confirm that one's title, even a title like president of the United States, says very little about how well one's life has been led. No matter how much you've done or how successful you've been, there's always more to do, always more to learn, and always more to achieve.
