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Scripture tells us to run with endurance the race that is set before us. As we do, may God hold close those who’ve been taken from us too soon.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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We are in what we hope is an intensive diplomatic phase now. It will not be open-ended.
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Like Joe Biden and so many other Americans, I've lost people I love deeply to cancer. I've heard often from those whose loved ones are suffering from Alzheimer's, addiction, and other debilitating diseases. Their heartbreak is real, and so we have a responsibility to respond with real solutions.
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What we saw was that the Ferguson Police Department in conjunction with the municipality saw traffic stops, arrests, tickets as a revenue generator, as opposed to serving the community, and that it systematically was biased against African-Americans in that city who were stopped, harassed, mistreated, abused, called names, fined.
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The terms of peace may be negotiated by political leaders, but the fate of peace is up to each of us.
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No one in the United States of America should ever be targeted because of who they are, what they look like, or how they worship.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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The arc of the moral universe may bend towards justice, but it doesn't bend on its own.
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One of the things I think I can bring to the presidency is to make government and public service cool again.
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Its [Dreams from My Father] also a reflection about how we might start a better conversation in our democracy about how to solve problems, because it feels as if our political system - it just seems there is so much cynicism and negativity in our politics.
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You can't always come up with the optimal solution, but you can usually come up with a better solution.
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Our lives are now in a telephone, all our data, all our finances, all our personal information, and so it's proper that we have some constraints on that. But it's not going to be 100 percent. If it is 100 percent, then we're not going to be able to protect ourselves and our societies from some people who are trying to hurt us.
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What I want all of you to know is that we are going to bring those who killed our fellow Americans to justice.
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The shift to a cleaner energy economy wont happen overnight, and it will require tough choices along the way. But the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.
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A free market was never meant to be a free licence to take whatever you can get, however you can get it.
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My administration will be the most transparent in history
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We're starting to make some progress. But there's still gonna be some pain out there. If I don't have this done in three years, then there's gonna be a one-term proposition.
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