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It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we ta

It was the labor movement that helped secure so much of what we take for granted today. The 40-hour work week, the minimum wage, family leave, health insurance, Social Security, Medicare, retirement plans. The cornerstones of the middle-class security all bear the union label. – Barack Obama

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As a nuclear power – as the only nuclear power to have used a nuclear weapon – the United States has a moral responsibility to act. – Barack Obama

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We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis. – Barack Obama

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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but dont want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential. – Barack Obama

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I believe with all my heart that America remains the great idea that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here. – Arnold Schwarzenegger

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I think Tattoos a song that can go so many different ways. Some people think of it as a break-up song, but, for me, its about somebody who comes into your life and really touches you – be they a friend, a family member or someone youre in a relationship with. – Jordin Sparks

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The great gift of family life is to be intimately acquainted with people you might never even introduce yourself to, had life not done it for you. – Kendall Hailey, The Day I Became an Autodidact

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I stay in tune with my family and God. – Regina King

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What words say does not last. The words last. Because words are always the same, and what they say is never the same. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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Write the bad things that are done to you in sand, but write the good things that happen to you on a piece of marble. – Arabic Proverb

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Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural. – John Berger

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The more I want to get something done, the less I call it work. – Richard Bach

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