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“The most important part of any relationship is allowing others to choose their own response to a situation, and of course this is the most difficult part.”
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“You can't change anything by fighting or resisting it. You change something by making it obsolete through superior methods.”
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“Understand this well: there is something holy, something divine hidden in the most ordinary situations, and it is up to each one of you to discover it.”
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“But I will say, I think there are some Democrats that don't want to address pension reform. I have taken on the issue of seniority and tenure. I think we have to address entitlements and the president has done that in his budget. I think we have to extend Medicare and the president has done that. But also reinvest in that program.”
Source : "David Axelrod and Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa defend President Obama's economic record". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. September 2, 2012. 
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“The South has not always been the friendliest place for African-Americans.”
Source : "Landrieu on Obama: South Not Always 'Friendliest Place for African-Americans'". www.nbcnews.com. October 31, 2014.
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“In general, we’re least aware of what our minds do best.”
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“We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of suffering of the former and the decline of the latter. We may wonder that our ancestors over-looked the darker days of those earlier nations. They did not. They hoped to construct a republic on principles to sound that if we should decline in piety and public virtue we would meet the inexorable fate of nations, which are as but dust in the hands of God.”
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“I never feel like I've done good enough. That's why I'm always so excited about working because I gotta keep pushing myself to do better work, to do great work.”
