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[Gold] gets dug out of the ground in Africa, or someplace. Then we melt it down, dig another hole, bury it again and pay people to stand around guarding it. It has no utility. Anyone watching from Mars would be scratching their head.

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I care what 51 percent of the people think about me.

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The reason we're governing right now is because we defeated moderate Republicans with moderate Democrats. And people need to be patient about that and realize that compromise is not evil.

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The reason that adulation is not displeasing is that, though untrue, it shows one to be of consequence enough, in one way or other, to induce people to lie.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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Oftentimes people ask me, 'Why is it that you're so focused on helping the hungry and diseased in strange parts of the world?'

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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.

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Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction.

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Ours is the "land of the free"-nobody denies that-nobody challenges it. (Maybe it is because we won't let other people testify.)

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I look forward to hosting Prime Minister Lee [Hsien Loong], whose friendship and partnership I appreciate very much and with whom I've worked throughout my administration. This will also be an opportunity for me to reciprocate the hospitality that the Prime Minister and the people of Singapore showed to me during my visit to Singapore for the APEC summit in 2009.

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The "religion of pity" to which people would like to convert us- oh, we know well enough the hysterical little men and women who need this religion at present as a veil and an adornment!

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Free people will set the course of history.

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I guess if people all followed the basic principles of their own religions, they would love everybody instead of hating half the world.

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Infidelity is a deal breaker for me. I've broken up with people over it. You can't do monogamy 90 percent of the time.

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You could omit anything if you knew that the omitted part would strengthen the short story and make people feel something more than they understood

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Keeping your commitment to your purpose does not depend on other people keeping theirs.

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I'd also remind people, if I were running for Presidency, that a long-term problem facing the budget is Social Security and Medicare.

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I'm not nostalgic about the old city. I don't enjoy it that much. It was just a city with one emperor and the rest of them just rats or meaningless people.

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I'm a lot less serious than people think.

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You don't take it personally. You understand that if people are angry that somehow the government is failing, then they are going to look to the guy who represents government.

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