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Life takes its own turns, makes its own demands, writes its own story, and along the way, we start to realize we are not the author.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I've been saying for years, we're gonna have to spend a lot more time on cyber security.
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After all, there were thousands of so-called campus radicals, most of them white and tenured and happily tolerated. No, it remained necessary to prove which side you were on, to show your loyalty to the black masses, to strike out and name names.
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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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Scripture tells us that we shall not oppress a stranger, for we know the heart of a stranger. We were strangers once, too.
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