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. CLINTONEverybody counts, everybody deserves a chance, everybody has a responsible role to play and we all do better when we work together.
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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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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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India.. a perfectly wonderful country, may have been motivated by a lack of self-esteem.
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I might not have been President if it hadn’t been for school music. Learning improves in school environments where there are comprehensive music programs.
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We have a moral obligation to make sure the people who are being required to work have the opportunity to work. We must make sure the jobs are there.
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If you want to know where I come by the passionate commitment I have to bringing people together without regard to race, it all started with my grandfather.
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Nobody is right all the time and even a broken clock is right twice a day.
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The Constitution is a radical document… it is the job of the government to rein in people’s rights.
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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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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 misled people, including even my wife.
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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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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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He was a martyr of peace but was the victim of hate. If people can’t let go of the hatred of their enemies they risk sowing the seeds of hate among themselves.
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It depends upon what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.
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In addition I had real and serious questions about an independent counsel investigation that began with private business dealings twenty years ago
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The Bible is the authoritative Word of God and contains all truth.
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…the fact [is] that our borders leak like a sieve: those things cannot be permitted to continue in good conscience.
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The era of big government is over.
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Our policy is guided by the principle that we will keep unauthorized aliens out of the United States, welcome legal immigrants, and protect refugees from harm. Our solutions rely on working in partnership with States and communities.
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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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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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Just as war is freedom’s cost, disagreement is freedom’s privilege.
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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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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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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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