We cannot idealize technology. Technology is only and always the reflection of our own imagination, and its uses must be conditioned by our own values. Technology can help cure diseases, but we can prevent a lot of diseases by old-fashioned changes in behavior.
WILLIAM J. CLINTONOne 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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The best example of all, to me, that our problems are both personal and cultural and political and social is the whole condition of the middle class economically.
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I did a lot of work on energy efficiency at the White House. By the time I left we had taken the equivalent of six hundred cars a year off the road in reduced greenhouse gas emissions just in the White House complex.
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It’s the biggest public health problem in America, the rising rates of obesity among our young people and very heavy statistics among our adult population.
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We find as our interdependence increases that, on the whole, we do better when other people do better as well.
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I don’t think the Republicans can damage my character
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There are two kinds of people in the world. Those who have seen the Taj Mahal and love it and those who have not seen the Taj and love it.
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It is important to me that everybody who has been hurt know that the sorrow I feel is genuine. First and most important, my family, my friends, my staff, my cabinet, Monica Lewinsky and her family and the American people. I have asked all for their forgiveness.
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In the emerging global economy, everything is mobile: capital, factories, even entire industries. The only resource that’s really rooted in a nation–and the ultimate source of all its wealth–is its people.
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There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
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Sincerity? I can fake that.
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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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I think if the White House or the President want to say anything about our conversations or anything I tried to do to help our country with their support or at their request, then I think they should be the ones to do that. But I think that former presidents should do that.
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I tried marijuana once. I did not inhale.
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India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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Over time, the more we bring China into the world, the more the world will bring freedom to China.
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It simply doesn’t make any sense for us to have illegal aliens in our custody in our courts and then let them go back to living here illegally. That’s wrong and we should stop it.
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You don’t have to wait till your party’s in power to have an impact on life at home and around the world.
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We will stand mighty for peace and freedom and maintain a strong defense against terror and destruction. Our children will sleep free from the threat of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons.
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When we give what we can, and give it with joy, we don’t just renew the American tradition of giving, we also renew ourselves.
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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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The only preparation for prospering in the global economy is investing in ourselves.
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Our big goal should be to make connection to the Internet as common as connection to telephones is today.
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If you come from a wealthy country with open borders, unless you seriously believe you can kill, imprison or occupy all your enemies, you have to make a world with more friends and fewer enemies – with more partners and fewer terrorists.
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America’s greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.
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I have said many times-if I hadn’t been exposed to music as a child I don’t think I would have been president.
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I was also very concerned about protecting my family.
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