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Dark economic clouds are dissipating into an emerging blue sky of opportunity.

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Rick Perry
Age: 74
Born: 1950
Born: March 4
Farmer
Governor Of Texas
Military Officer
Politician
Haskell
Texas
James Richard Perry
James Richard Rick Perry
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Opportunity
Dissipating
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The God we serve does not seek out the perfect, but instead uses our imperfections and our shortcomings for his greater good. I am humbled by my own limitations. But where I am weak, He is strong.
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Armed and law-abiding citizens are a greater deterrent to violent crime than 1,000 laws passed by Congress.
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