Quote by Barack Obama
When we think of the major threats to our national security, the f

When we think of the major threats to our national security, the first to come to mind are nuclear proliferation, rogue states and global terrorism. But another kind of threat lurks beyond our shores, one from nature, not humans – an avian flu pandemic. – 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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Friendship
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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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power
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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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Nature
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Human nature refers to what is in people but which they cannot study or work at achieving. – Xun Zi

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Nature

As parents, grandparents, uncles and aunts we need to start getting out into nature with the young people in our lives. Families play a key role in getting kids outside. – David Suzuki

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Nature

I plead for conservation of human culture, which is much more fragile than nature herself. We neednt destroy other cultures with the force of our own. – Arthur Erickson

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Nature

Its human nature to be curious about people, and to be more curious about young people than old people. We want to cheer something on at the same time we want to tear it down. Thats just so normal. – Amy Grant

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Nature

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The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler. – Franz Kafka

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History

Classical music is the kind we keep thinking will turn into a tune. – Frank McKinney “Kin” Hubbard, Comments of Abe Martin and His Neighbors, 1923

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Music

Taste this, and be henceforth among the Gods thyself a Goddess. – John Milton

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Temptation

People who know me , they know I have a sense of humor, Im a bit of a joker, a bit of a clown really, and I would love someone to exploit that side of me and send me a romantic comedy. – Gary Oldman

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Humor