Quote by Barack Obama
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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We cant get to the $4 trillion in savings that we need by just cutting the 12 percent of the budget that pays for things like medical research and education funding and food inspectors and the weather service. And we cant just do it by making seniors pay more for Medicare. – Barack Obama

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Education
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And we can see the positive impacts right here at Solyndra. Less than a year ago, we were standing on what was an empty lot.But through the Recovery Act, this company received a loan to expand its operations. This new factory is the result of those loans. – Barack Obama

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positive
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I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If youre sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I. – Barack Obama

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Money
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Laws are silent in time of war. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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I knew that I could vote and that that wasnt a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. – Stokely Carmichael

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Time

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then Im neurotic as hell. Ill be flying back and forth between one mutually exclusive thing and another for the rest of my days. – Sylvia Plath

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Time

Be of service. Whether you make yourself available to a friend or co-worker, or you make time every month to do volunteer work, there is nothing that harvests more of a feeling of empowerment than being of service to someone in need. – Gillian Anderson

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Time

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All non-incumbent campaigns promise hope and change, but Obama took the promise to a new level of absurdity. He suggested that a vote for him would literally transform the Earth. – John Podhoretz

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Change

If your work speaks for itself, don’t interrupt. – Henry J. Kaiser

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Action

I like movies that pop, that have a little bit of candy on, that freedom to have a little bit of extra fun, but are rooted in real behaviour. Rooted in cause and effect, never violating reality. – Tony Gilroy

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Freedom

A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as to other of beauty. – William Congreve

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Sincerity