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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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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
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On Easter or Christmas Day, my mother might drag me to church, just as she dragged me to the Buddhist temple, the Chinese New Year celebration, the Shinto shrine, and ancient Hawaiian burial sites.
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