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We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people w

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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One of the great strengths of the United States is… we have a very large Christian population – we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values. – Barack Obama

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In fact, the best thing we could do on taxes for all Americans is to simplify the individual tax code. This will be a tough job, but members of both parties have expressed an interest in doing this, and I am prepared to join them. – Barack Obama

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To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk-rock performance poets. – Barack Obama

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I work really hard at trying to see the big picture and not getting stuck in ego. I believe were all put on this planet for a purpose, and we all have a different purpose… When you connect with that love and that compassion, thats when everything unfolds. – Ellen DeGeneres

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I suppose for me as an artist it wasnt always just about expressing my work I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go. – David Bowie

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Our fatigue is often caused not by work, but by worry, frustration and resentment. – Dale Carnegie

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Unemployment is capitalisms way of getting you to plant a garden. – Orson Scott Card

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True leadership lies in guiding others to success. In ensuring that everyone is performing at their best, doing the work they are pledged to do and doing it well. – Bill Owens

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Mayors could never get away with the kind of nonsense that goes on in Washington. In our world, you either picked up the trash or you didnt. You either moved an abandoned car or you didnt. You either filled a pothole or you didnt. Thats what we do every day. And we know how to get this stuff done. – Michael Nutter

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I studied literature design and fashion design. – Danielle Steel

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I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make. – Leif Garrett

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