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Acts of sacrifice and decency without regard to what's in it for you create a ripple effect. Ones that lift up families and communities, that spread opportunity.
Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you
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And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ.
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In Indonesia, I had spent two years at a Muslim school, two years at a Catholic school. In the Muslim school, the teacher wrote to tell my mother that I made faces during Koranic studies.
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There isn't anyone who can't serve ... nobody who can't help somebody else.
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That's part of what I tried to describe to my team and supporters after the election, there was a lot of disappointment.
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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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Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls.
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A budget is more than just a series of numbers on a page it is an embodiment of our values.
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My central focus is what are we doing to protect the American people and the American homeland? Afghanistan and Pakistan are critical elements in that process.
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There are always things that I think I wish I could have done better.
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I've said this before, and I know this raises questions in the minds of some evangelicals. I do not believe that my mother, who never formally embraced Christianity as far as I know ... I do not believe she went to hell.
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I am living testimony to the moral force of non-violence. I know there's nothing weak - nothing passive - nothing naïve - in the creed and lives of Gandhi and King.
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You have the ability and gifts to do whatever you want. It is your turn now to change the world. Yes we can!
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