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Barack Obama

"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!"

Source : "Misrepresenting Obama's audiobook, Hannity claimed Obama said, 'White folks' greed runs a world in need'" by Varun Piplani, www.mediamatters.org. August 21, 2008.

Barack Obama

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“The more potent, unasked question is how society at large reacts to eager, voluntary violence by females, and to the growing evidence that women can be just as aggressive as men.”
“Jerusalem has been our capital for 3,000 years and it's going to be our capital for eternity”
“Nothing excites jaded Grandmasters more than a theoretical novelty”

Source : Dominic Lawson (1994). “End Game: Kasparov Vs. Short”, Harmony
“It"s good to keep wide-open ears and listen to what everybody else has to say, but when you come to make a decision, you have to weigh all of what you"ve heard on its own, and place it where it belongs, and come to a decision for yourself; you"ll never regret it. But if you form the habit of taking what someone else says about a thing without checking it out for yourself, you"ll find that other people will have you hating your friends and loving your enemies.”
“I played with the Birmingham Black Barons. I was making 500 at 14. That was a lot of money in those days”
“You learn a lot about each other from a tour, musically and humanly.”
“There is little that can withstand a man who can conquer himself.”
“There is perhaps no truer sign that a man is really advancing than that he is learning to forget himself, that he is losing the natural thoughts about self in the thought of One higher than himself, to whose guidance he can commit himself and all men.”

Source : John Campbell Shairp (1871). “Culture and Religion in Some of Their Relations”, p.93

"It is this world, a world where cruise ships throw away more food in a day than most residents of Port-au-Prince see in a year, where white folks' greed runs a world in need, apartheid in one hemisphere, apathy in another hemisphere...That's the world! On which hope sits!"

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