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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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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent. – Barack Obama

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Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones weve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek. – Barack Obama

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Weve protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty theres no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope. – Barack Obama

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What I cannot love, I overlook. Is that real friendship? – Anais Nin

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If one of two lovers is loyal, and the other jealous and false, how may their friendship last, for Love is slain! – Marie de France

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My old grandmother always used to say, Summer friends will melt away like summer snows, but winter friends are friends forever. – George R.R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons, 2011

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Fear makes strangers of people who would be friends. – Shirley MacLaine

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One meets his destiny often in the road he takes to avoid it. – Proverb

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My advice is very simple: if you can win a small battle, it gives you confidence in the political process to take on bigger battles, and so it is very much a bottom-up grass-roots way of doing politics. – David Miliband

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The pseudonym for God when He did not want to sign. – Anatole France

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Somebody whos really comfortable with who she is and doesnt care what other people think. I like women who are really strong and were brought up to be comfortable with themselves and respect themselves. – Brian Austin Green

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