"Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't..." - Quote by Barack Obama
Things change pretty rapidly. But they don't change inevitably. They change because you work for it.
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“That's where peace begins - not just in the plans of leaders, but in the hearts of people. Not just in some carefully designed process, but in the daily connections - that sense of empathy that takes place among those who live together in this land and in this sacred city of Jerusalem.”
“I think it's useful to keep in mind I've been now President for over seven years and gun sales don't seem to have suffered during that time.”
“There is a little bit of that schoolyard attitude of, it's one thing for a guy your own size to mouth off to you, but if there's a little guy, you should just smack him around. And it's probably bad advice in the schoolyard. It's certainly not a good way to run a foreign policy because even when you are dealing with a non-peer, militarily, war is complicated.”
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“You may tell by looking at any twig of the forest, ay, at your very wood-pile, whether its winter is past or not.”
“Motion is created by the destruction of balance.”
“There is competition, .. Can any Microsoft endure future competition without innovation? The answer is no. We've got to keep changing.”
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“I am much more likely to care about someone trying to be funny and give them some credit for whatever he or she did that was remotely funny than I am to be mused by somebody declaring this isn't funny, that isn't funny, this sucks. If you want to write humor, you're going to have to get used to that.”
“Learn as if you were not reaching your goal and as though you were scared of missing it”
“Remember that creating a successful marriage is like farming: you have to start over again every morning.”