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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spe

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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I dont care whether youre driving a hybrid or an SUV. If youre headed for a cliff, you have to change direction. Thats what the American people called for in November, and thats what we intend to deliver. – Barack Obama

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Change
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Barack Obama
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We cant drive our SUVs and eat as much as we want and keep our homes on 72 degrees at all times… and then just expect that other countries are going to say OK. Thats not leadership. Thats not going to happen. – Barack Obama

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Leadership
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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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Health
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Barack Obama
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It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past. – Karl Von Clausewitz

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Time

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time. – George Bernard Shaw

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Time

It pays to know the enemy – not least because at some time you may have the opportunity to turn him into a friend. – Margaret Thatcher

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Time

Our duty is to encourage every one in his struggle to live up to his own highest idea, and strive at the same time to make the ideal as near as possible to the Truth. – Swami Vivekananda

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Time

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I think she definitely has. I think, um, her and Mulders relationship has become more equal. And, I think she has become stronger and more independent over the seasons. – Gillian Anderson

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relationship

When a man thinks happily, he finds no foot-track in the field he traverses. All spontaneous thought is irrespective of all else. – Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Quotation and Originality,” Letters and Social Aims, 1876

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Quotations

Now both my films have been number one at the Australian box office and it took about two years just to get the finance for this film, so if its hard for me then God help everyone else. – Yahoo Serious

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finance

Suffering is above, not below. And everyone thinks that suffering is below. And everyone wants to rise. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

Category:
Adversity