These dilemmas present perhaps the most enduring conundrum of human history: can people derive their identity primarily by positive association or does life’s meaning also require negative comparison to others?
WILLIAM J. CLINTONSuccess is not the measure of a man but a triumph over those who choose to hold him back.
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One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old “sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.”
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Posterity is the world to come; the world for whom we hold our ideals, from whom we have borrowed our planet, and to whom we bear sacred responsibility. We must do what America does best: offer more opportunity to all and demand responsibility from all.
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Let’s create an integrated global community where we have shared benefits and responsibilities, and we don’t fight because of our differences.
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We must all be profoundly grateful for the magnificent achievements of our forbearers in this century. Yet perhaps in the daily press of events, in the clash of controversy, we don’t see our own time for what it truly is – a new dawn for America.
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I think that the responsibility that the Democrats had may rest more in resisting any efforts by Republicans in the Congress, or by me when I was President, to put some standards and tighten up a little on Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
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Though we march to the music of our time, our mission is timeless.
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We must work tirelessly to make sure that every boy and girl in America who is up for adoption has a family waiting to reach him or her…This is a season of miracles, and perhaps there is no greater miracle than finding a loving home for a child who needs one.
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The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.
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We have a unique opportunity to unite America, urban and rural, coastal and midwestern, red and blue, under the banner of a truly unifying national effort. We can start right now.
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I personally don’t believe we ought to be raising taxes or cutting spending, either one, until we get this economy off the ground. I’ll pay more, but it won’t solve the problem.
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Sometimes I think the environment in which we operate is entirely too secular. The fact that we have freedom of religion doesn’t mean we need to try to have freedom from religion
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Globalisation is not something that we can hold off or turn off. It is the economic equivalent of a force of nature, like wind or water.
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Nearly everyone will lie to you, given the right circumstances.
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We need not just a new generation of leadership but a new gender of leadership
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India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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