Quote by Barack Obama
Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty

Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because its only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential. – Barack Obama

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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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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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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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A man who dares to waste one hour of time has not discovered the value of life. – Charles Darwin

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At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage. – Bob Dylan

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Without deep reflection one knows from daily life that one exists for other people. – Albert Einstein

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Everyone has his own specific vocation or mission in life everyone must carry out a concrete assignment that demands fulfillment. Therein he cannot be replaced, nor can his life be repeated, thus, everyones task is unique as his specific opportunity to implement it. – Viktor E. Frankl

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If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing. – English Proverb

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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth. – Ramakrishna

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The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism. – Norman Vincent Peale

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An unattempted lady could not vaunt of her chastity. – Michel de Montaigne

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