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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefull

To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama

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The fact that we are here today to debate raising Americas debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase Americas debt. – Barack Obama

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Failure
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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but dont want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. – Barack Obama

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work
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But if you – if what – the reports are true, what theyre saying is, is that as a consequence of us getting 30 million additional people health care, at the margins thats going to increase our costs, we knew that. – Barack Obama

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Health
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I force people to have coffee with me, just because I dont trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen. – John Cusack

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No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow. – Alice Walker

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Friendship

They took their meals together and it was remarked on such occasions, when the friendship of animals is put to a hard test, that they never quarrelled or disputed the possession of a favourite fruit with each other. – Henry Walter Bates

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Friendship

True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island… to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune to keep him is a blessing. – Baltasar Gracian

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Saddle your dreams before you ride em. – Mary Webb

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The minute that youre not learning I believe youre dead. – Jack Nicholson

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Riches: A dream in the night. Fame: A gull floating on water. – Chinese Proverb

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Perpetual devotion to what a man calls his business, is only to be sustained by perpetual neglect of many other things. – Robert Louis Stevenson, Virginibus puerisque, 1881

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