Barack Obama Quotes, Years Quotes, People Quotes

I would say of all the things that have happened during the course of my presidency the knowledge that you have hundreds of thousands of people who have been killed, millions who have been displaced, [makes me] ask myself what might I have done differently along the course of the last five, six years.

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No, life has not disappointed me. On the contrary, I find it truer, more desirable and mysterious every year -- ever since the day when the great liberator came to me: the idea that life could be an experiment of the seeker for knowledge -- and not a duty, not a calamity, not trickery.

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In handing over the Government of India to these so-called political classes, we are handing over to men of straw, of whom, in a few years, no trace will remain.

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Alas! the fleeting years, how they roll on!

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It is bad to be poor. I shall go to the wall for bread and meat, if I neglect my business this year as well as last.

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There is every reason to think that in the coming years Mars and its mysteries will become increasingly familiar to the inhabitants of the Planet Earth.

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If in 100 years I am only known as the man who invented Sherlock Holmes then I will have considered my life a failure.

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We should strive for steadiness, and for a commitment to God that does not ebb and flow with the years or the crises of our lives.

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Tags : Thomas S. Monson Quotes , Commitment Quotes , Years Quotes

1992 was the worst year of my life, to watch my dad lose. It was a painful experience. Yet when I became president, it was so much easier to be president.

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Tags : George W. Bush Quotes , Dad Quotes , Years Quotes

I was educated once - it took me years to get over it.

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Tags : Mark Twain Quotes , Years Quotes , Educated Quotes

We right now give $15 billion every year as subsidies to private insurers under the Medicare system. Doesn't work any better through the private insurers. They just skim off $15 billion.

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And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.

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I started tapping and I was okay. Then after about two years my feet knew what they were doing!

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the Musgroves had had the ill fortune of a very troublesome, hopeless son, and the good fortune to lose him before he reached his twentieth year.

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There is a strong demand for Michael Jackson's music and merchandise, and that will only increase as more material surfaces in the years following his death.

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Tags : Adam Kluger Quotes , Strong Quotes , Years Quotes

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year.

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Tags : John Milton Quotes , Years Quotes , Ivy Quotes

If at times I have thought myself unfortunate, it is because of a confusion, an error. I have mistaken myself for someone else... Who am I really? I am the author of The World as Will and Representation, I am the one who has given an answer to the mystery of Being that will occupy the thinkers of future centuries. That is what I am, and who can dispute it in the years of life that still remain for me?

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Tags : Arthur Schopenhauer Quotes , Errors Quotes , Years Quotes

In his fierce, bold determination to see the lives of modern-day slaves up close, Benjamin Skinner reminds me of the British abolitionist of two hundred years ago, Zachary Macaulay, who once traveled on a slave ship across the Atlantic, taking notes. Skinner goes everywhere, from border crossings to brothels to bargaining sessions with dealers in human beings, to bring us this vivid, searing account of the wide network of human trafficking and servitude which spans today's globe.

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I probably won't be able to hear it until five years from now anyway. That's when I always hear my own music. It takes five years to sit down with it after not hearing it for a couple of years.

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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.

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Tags : Abraham Lincoln Quotes , Government Quotes , Years Quotes