"Like many of my friends and colleagues, I can't get enough of Obama news; latest polling, speeches, visits, reaction of world leaders."

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Source : "Labour must learn from Obama" by Lucy Powell, www.theguardian.com. July 25, 2008.

Lucy Powell

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“If you don't want to be replaced by a computer, don't act like one.”
“Every leaf is a spacious plain; every line a flowing brook; every period a lofty mountain.”

Source : James Hervey (1816). “Mediations and Contemplations: Containing Meditations Among the Tombs, Reflections on a Flower-garden, A Descant Upon Creation, Contemplations on the Night, Contemplations on the Starry Heavens, A Winter-piece ...”, p.136
“If you don't have a righteous objective,eventually you will suffer. When you do the right thing for the right reason,the right result awaits.”
“Why, what is to live? Not to eat and drink and breathe,â€”but to feel the life in you down all the fibres of being, passionately and joyfully.”

Source : Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (2012). “Browning: Poems”, p.223, Everyman's Library
“In the aftermath of the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, I watched helplessly as the Bush administration led America into a strategic blunder of historic proportions. It became painfully obvious that the executive branch of our government did not trust its military. It relied instead on a neoconservative ideology developed by men and women with little, if any, military experience. Some senior military leaders did not challenge civilian decision makers at the appropriate times, and the courageous few who did take a stand were subsequently forced out of the service.”
“I think God appreciates that we appreciate his creation”
“How do you gag the voice in your head that says, 'You don't have to [do it] today. There's always tomorrow.'?”
“Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.”

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