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A better politics is one where we appeal to each other’s basic decency instead of our basest fears.
Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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I confess to wincing every so often at a poorly chosen word, a mangled sentence, an expression of emotion that seems indulgent or overly practiced. I have the urge to cut the book by fifty pages or so, possessed as I am with a keener appreciation for brevity.
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