Barack Obama Quotes, Inspiring Quotes, Country Quotes

For we have a choice in this country. We can accept a politics that breeds division, and conflict, and cynicism. We can tackle race only as spectacle - as we did in the OJ trial - or in the wake of tragedy, as we did in the aftermath of Katrina - or as fodder for the nightly news. We can play Reverend Wright's sermons on every channel, every day and talk about them from now until the election, and make the only question in this campaign whether or not the American people think that I somehow believe or sympathize with his most offensive words.

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I'm grateful to be of use. I will not be misused or abused, but I will be of use to anybody.

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Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

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The greater part of human activity is designed to make permanent those experiences and joys which are only lovable because they are changing.

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Perhaps it is better to be irresponsible and right, than to be responsible and wrong.

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So the experts think we could have an AIDS-free generation in Africa by 2015, even if the mothers are positive.

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To love life through our labor is to be intimate with life's inmost secrets.

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Patience is waiting. Not passively waiting. That is laziness. But to keep going when the going is hard and slow - that is patience. The two most powerful warriors are patience and time.

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Be compassionate to everyone. Don't just search for whatever it is that annoys and frightens you-see beyond those things to the basic human being. Especially see the child in the man or woman. Even if they are destroying you, allow a moment to see how lost in their own delusion and suffering they are.

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

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I kept always two books in my pocket, one to read, one to write in.

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Do not overrate what you have received, nor envy others. He who envies others does not obtain peace of mind.

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We reaffirm that on days like this, there are no Republicans or Democrats. We are Americans, united in concern for our fellow citizens.

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An artist cannot do anything slovenly.

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To love yourself right now, just as you are, is to give yourself heaven. Don't wait until you die. If you wait, you die now. If you love, you live now.

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The great courageous act that we must all do, is to have the courage to step out of our history and past so that we can live our dreams.

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The value of a man should be seen in what he gives and not in what he is able to receive.

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Living your best life is to find out what your calling is. Your real job on Earth is to find out what you were meant to be doing & to find a way to do that thing.

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The brain and muscles must develop simultaneously. Iron nerves with an intelligent brain — and the whole world is at your feet.

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The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

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