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Sustaining the energy and focus involved in doing a good job I think starts to - starts to gets tougher the longer you do it.

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Barack Obama
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: August 4
44Th U.S. President
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The biggest deficit that we have in our society and in the world right now is an empathy deficit. We are in great need of people being able to stand in somebody else's shoes and see the world through their eyes.
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If you only think about yourself - how much money can I make, what can I buy, how nice is my house, what kind of fancy car do I have? - over the long term, I think, you get bored. I think your life becomes diminished. The way to live a full life is to think: What can I do for others?
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