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Don't shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.

Barack Obama

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
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We have come from a time of the large-scale, planned, Al Qaeda-style attacks, to the encouragement of lone wolves: Fort Hood, Chattanooga. To the encouragement of people to act on their own.
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