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Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually kno

Dreams From My Father reveals more about Obama than is usually known about political leaders until after theyre dead. Perhaps more than it intends, it shows his mind working, in real time, sentence by sentence, in what feels like a private audience with the reader. – Jonathan Raban

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Critics? Dont talk to me of critics! You think some jackanapes journalist, his soul eaten away by the maggots of jealousy and failure, has anything worthwhile to say of art? I dont. – Jonathan Raban

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The only book by a modern president that bears serious comparison with Obamas Dreams From My Father is Jimmy Carters short campaign autobiography, Why Not the Best?, published in 1975. – Jonathan Raban

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Over emphatic negatives always suggest that what is being denied may be what is really being asserted. – Jonathan Raban

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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe. – Anatole France

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I am so excited to let fans in on how important my relationship with my family is to me. I hope to motivate mothers and daughters to build lifetimes of memories together and inspire kids around the world to live their dreams. – Miley Cyrus

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A dream becomes a goal when action is taken toward its achievement. – Bo Bennett

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Id say its been my biggest problem all my life… its money. It takes a lot of money to make these dreams come true. – Walt Disney

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Growing up, politics never trickled down to the areas we come from. But people from Obamas camp, and Obama himself, reached out to me and asked for my help on the campaign. Weve sat and had dinner, and weve spoken on the phone. Hes a very sharp guy. Very charming. Very cool. – Jay-Z

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Nothing that is really good and God-like dies. – Ernst Moritz Arndt

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Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education they grow firm there, firm as weeds among stones. – Charlotte Bronte

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To appreciate and use correctly a valuable maxim requires a genius, a vital appropriating exercise of mind, closely allied to that which first created it. – William Rounseville Alger, “The Utility and the Futility of Aphorisms,” The Atla

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