Quote by Barack Obama
Its not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or r

Its not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who arent like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations. – Barack Obama

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The fact that we are here today to debate raising Americas debt limit is a sign of leadership failure. America has a debt problem and a failure of leadership. Americans deserve better. I, therefore, intend to oppose the effort to increase Americas debt. – Barack Obama

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Failure
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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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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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work
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One strength of the communist system of the East is that it has some of the character of a religion and inspires the emotions of a religion. – Albert Einstein

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Religion

God is a comedian playing to an audience too afraid to laugh. – Voltaire

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Religion

Earth changes, but thy soul and God stand sure. – Robert Browning

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Religion

Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none. – Joseph Smith, Jr.

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Religion

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Fact I know; and Law I know; but what is this Necessity, save an empty shadow of my own minds throwing? – Thomas Henry Huxley

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Necessity

When youre playing the same dirty dozen night after night, the moments that keep it fresh are those when you just let go and trust everyone. – Jonathan Cain

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Trust

There is always the danger that we may just do the work for the sake of the work. This is where the respect and the love and the devotion come in – that we do it to God, to Christ, and thats why we try to do it as beautifully as possible. – Mother Teresa

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God

Revolution! The people howls and cries, Freedom, thats what were needing! Weve needed it for centuries, our arteries are bleeding. The stage is shaking, the audience rock. The whole thing is over by nine oclock. – Kurt Tucholsky

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Freedom