Barack Obama Quotes
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[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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I don't have a disregard for my reader in humor pieces.
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Modern man must descend the spiral of his own absurdity to the lowest point; only then can he look beyond it. It is obviously impossible to get around it, jump over it, or simply avoid it.
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I went to a military school between the ages of six and 12 and later into the air force. You learn discipline and strength of character.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.
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Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
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It is not length of life, but depth of life.
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It is remarkable how easily children and grown-ups adapt to living in a dictatorship organised by lunatics.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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I'm a 'Bridesmaids' type of girl. I love silliness. That's who I am at heart, and I know I can do it. If my career path takes me elsewhere, that's great. But comedy is my forte.
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We are looking at a future where to a first approximation, everyone is wealthy.
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The fact of the matter is that the government is there to protect the people.
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There are definitely scripts I start reading, where it doesn't interest me. Maybe it'll be a good movie, but the character doesn't intrigue me.
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Love's greatest gift is its ability to make everything it touches sacred.
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Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
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I think if you're a painter, you paint; if you're a golfer, you golf; if you're a fisherman, you fish; if you're a musician, you play music.
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Guarding your heart and protecting your dignity are a little bit more important than clarifying the emotions of someone who's only texting you back three words. I've learned that from trying to figure out people who don't deserve to be figured out.
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We have two lives the one we learn with and the life we live after that.
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I am here to accept responsibility for that which I did. I will not accept responsibility for that which I did not do.
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I make a sincere effort to do some form of exercise every day, except for Sunday. That's church and hang out day.
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It is a sign of a dull nature to occupy oneself deeply in matters that concern the body; for instance, to be over much occupied about exercise, about eating and drinking, about easing oneself, about sexual intercourse.
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I liked to discover connections like that, especially if they concerned Lila. I traced lines between moments and events distant from one another, I established convergences and divergences. In that period it became a daily exercise: the better off I had been in Ischia, the worse off Lila had been in the desolation of the neighborhood; the more I had suffered upon leaving the island, the happier she had become. It was as if, because of an evil spell, the joy or sorrow of one required the sorrow or joy of the other; even our physical aspect, it seemed to me, shared in that swing.
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[J]ust because you have an individual right does not mean that the state or local government can't constrain the exercise of that right.
