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The success of our economy has always depended not just on the size of our gross domestic product, but on the reach of our prosperity on the ability to extend opportunity to every willing heart - not out of charity, but because it is the surest route to our common good.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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