"I think we would have made a..." - Quote by Barack Obama
I think we would have made a lot more mistakes and would have accomplished a lot less had we not been grounded in some basic truths.
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“Ultimately, the challenges of the 21st century can't be met without collective action. Agreement will almost never be easy, and results won't always come quickly. But I am committed to respecting different points of view, and to forging a consensus instead of dictating our terms... That's how we will advance and uphold our ideals.”
“America is much less violent than it was 20, 30 years ago, and immigration is much less a problem than it was not just 20, 30 years ago, but when I came in as president.”
“There's just a whole different attitude and vibe when you're not in power as when you're in power.”
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“He that would be a great man must learn to turn every accident to some advantage.”
“He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument”
“It is worth the expense of youthful days and costly hours, if you learn only some words of an ancient language, which are raised out of the trivialness of the street, to be perpetual suggestions and provocations. It is not in vain that the farmer remembers and repeats the few Latin words which he has heard.”
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“[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.”
“Facts, at any rate, could not be kept hidden. They could be tracked down by inquiry, they could be squeezed out of you by torture. But if the object was not to stay alive but to stay human, what difference did it ultimately make? They could not alter your feelings, for that matter you could not alter them yourself, even if you wanted to. They could lay bare in the utmost detail everything that you had done or said or thought; but the inner heart, whose workings were mysterious even to yourself, remained impregnable.”
“In finance everything that is agreeable is unsoundand everything that is sound is disagreeable.”