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. CLINTONSupporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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Everybody knows that I have tougher ethics rules than any previous President.
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I think what breaks people is not adversity; what breaks people is thinking that tomorrow is going to be just like yesterday. That’s what’s numbing – if you think you can’t change, you can’t be better. And I didn’t like that.
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If we want to invest in the prosperity of our nation, we must invest in the education of our children so that their talents may be fully employed.
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India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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Technology really has turned out to be a wonderful thing. . . . So Americans really are tuning in in positive ways on the Internet.
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For 60 years, Social Security has meant more than an ID number on a tax form; more than a monthly check in the mail. It reflects our deepest values – our respect for our parents and our belief that all Americans deserve to retire with dignity.
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One of the things that I think we have learned is that we should all be very careful about making predictions about the future.
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Education no longer stops on graduation day. We must demand excellence at every level of education.
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AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it’s up to the politicians to create the “comprehensive strategies” to better treat the disease.
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Over the past 7 years, we’ve tried to modernize the economy, and today what we’re doing is modernizing the financial services industry, tearing down these antiquated walls, and granting banks significant new authority.
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If we disagree and I think I’m right, I just go ahead and do what I think is right. And then she tells me, ‘I told you so.’
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Supporters of capital punishment bear a special responsibility to ensure the fairness of this irreversible punishment.
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On Bill Clinton: I have a simple question: Who’s the last President to give you a balanced budget?
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Keep your eyes on the prize and don’t turn back.
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Though I often disagree with Republicans, I never learned to hate them the way the far right that now controls their party seems to hate our president [Barack Obama] and a lot of other Democrats.
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