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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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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I have been in Washington for a while now, and most things don't surprise me. The fact that twenty 6-year-olds were gunned down in the most violent fashion possible and this town couldn't do anything about it was stunning to me.
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Please proceed, Governor.
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You don't need to see my birth certificate, or my college records, or my legal writings, or... anything.
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