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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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Cutting the deficit by gutting our investments in innovation and education is like lightening an overloaded airplane by removing its engine. It may make you feel like youre flying high at first, but it wont take long before you feel the impact. – Barack Obama

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Education
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A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, Huh. It works. It makes sense. – Barack Obama

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good
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In the end, thats what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope? – Barack Obama

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The Friend asks no return but that his Friend will religiously accept and wear and not disgrace his apotheosis of him. They cherish each other’s hopes. They are kind to each other’s dreams. – Henry David Thoreau

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Friendship

You can always tell a real friend: when you’ve made a fool of yourself he doesn’t feel you’ve done a permanent job. – Laurence J. Peter

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Friendship

True friends stab you in the front. – Oscar Wilde

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Friendship

And though my Lord hath lost his estate and been banished out of his country, yet neither despised poverty nor pinching necessity could make him break the bonds of friendship or weaken his loyal duty. – Margaret Cavendish

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These days its cool to be ethnic and to be different, but when I was a kid, it was not cool – at all. My friends would come over and my mom would make crepes with eggs, stuffed with mozzarella cheese, tomatoes and spinach. And theyd be like, What is this? – Giada De Laurentiis

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Reading means borrowing. – Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms

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Books

Vertigo is the conflict between the fear of falling and the desire to fall. – Salman Rushdie

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If winning isnt everything, why do they keep score? – Vince Lombardi

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