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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I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes. – Barack Obama

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The Bush Administrations failure to be consistently involved in helping Israel achieve peace with the Palestinians has been both wrong for our friendship with Israel, as well as badly damaging to our standing in the Arab world. – Barack Obama

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We worship an awesome God in the Blue States, and we dont like federal agents poking around our libraries in the Red States. We coach Little League in the Blue States and have gay friends in the Red States. – Barack Obama

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Life is beautiful if you flow with its natural beauty. Resistance makes it ugly. – Terri Guillemets

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I have a simple philosophy: Fill whats empty. Empty whats full. Scratch where it itches. – Alice Roosevelt Longworth

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Ive failed over and over and over again in my life and that is why I succeed. – Michael Jordan

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There is always a present and extant life, be it better or worse, which all combine to uphold. – Henry David Thoreau

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I keep getting these extraordinary letteres, really weird ones from American sports stars – Ive always thought you were one pretty lady and now that youre single I want to meet you for a drink. – Elizabeth Hurley

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