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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But let me perfectly clear, because I know youll hear the same old claims that rolling back these tax breaks means a massive tax increase on the American people: if your family earns less than $250,000 a year, you will not see your taxes increased a single dime. I repeat: not one single dime. – Barack Obama

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Family
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For more than four decades, the Libyan people have been ruled by a tyrant – Moammar Gaddafi. He has denied his people freedom, exploited their wealth, murdered opponents at home and abroad, and terrorized innocent people around the world – including Americans who were killed by Libyan agents. – Barack Obama

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Freedom
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Weve protected thousands of people in Libya we have not seen a single U.S. casualty theres no risks of additional escalation. This operation is limited in time and in scope. – Barack Obama

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An architect should live as little in cities as a painter. Send him to our hills, and let him study there what nature understands by a buttress, and what by a dome. – John Ruskin

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Suffering is permanent, obscure and dark, And shares the nature of infinity. – William Wordsworth

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God is each truly and exalted thing, therefore the individual himself to the highest degree. But are not nature and the world individuals? – Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness. – Taylor Caldwell

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The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. – Muhammad Iqbal

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No Congress ever has seen fit to amend the Constitution to address any issue related to marriage. No Constitutional Amendment was needed to ban polygamy or bigamy, nor was a Constitutional Amendment needed to set a uniform age of majority to ban child marriages. – Judy Biggert

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Crabbed and obscure definitions are of no use beyond a narrow circle of students, of whom probably every one has a pet one of his own. – Frederick Pollock

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Good politics starts with empathy, proceeds to analysis, then sets out values and establishes the vision, before getting to the nitty-gritty of policy solutions. – David Miliband

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