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All Quotes Collection

"Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody."
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"I know my country has not perfected itself. At times, we've struggled to keep the promise of liberty and equality for all of our people. We've made our share of mistakes, and there are times when our actions around the world have not lived up to our best intentions."
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"Diligence is the mother of good luck."
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"He who falls in love with himself will have no rivals."
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"It is a good thing to learn caution from the misfortunes of others."
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"The eye of the master will do more work than both his hands."
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"Whether it's Google or Apple or free software, we've got some fantastic competitors and it keeps us on our toes."
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"We didn't become the most prosperous country in the world just by rewarding greed and recklessness. We didn't come this far by letting the special interests run wild. We didn't do it just by gambling and chasing paper profits on Wall Street. We built this country by making things, by producing goods we could sell."
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"The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them."
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"We have now just enshrined, as soon as I sign this bill, the core principle that everybody should have some basic security when it comes to their healthcare."
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"I am looking for a lot of men who have an infinite capacity to not know what can't be done."
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"Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame."
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"The only real security that a man can have in this world is a reserve of knowledge, experience and ability."
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"I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong."
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"I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live."
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"He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else."
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"We are born princes and the civilizing process makes us frogs."
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"The wounds of love can only be healed by the one who made them."
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"I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing."
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"Be slow to fall into friendship; but when thou art in, continue firm and constant."
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"I miss Saturday morning, rolling out of bed, not shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed, taking walks."
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"Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference."
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"Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don't have brains enough to be honest."
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"Work as if you were to live a hundred years. Pray as if you were to die tomorrow."
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"If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it."
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"When befriended, remember it; when you befriend, forget it."
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"And, after all, what is a lie? 'Tis but the truth in a masquerade."
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"And so our goal on health care is, if we can get, instead of health care costs going up 6 percent a year, it's going up at the level of inflation, maybe just slightly above inflation, we've made huge progress. And by the way, that is the single most important thing we could do in terms of reducing our deficit. That's why we did it."
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"How happy is the blameless vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot."
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"When women kiss it always reminds one of prize fighters shaking hands."
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"Experience keeps a dear school, but fools will learn in no other."
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"My best friend is the one who brings out the best in me."
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"Savages we call them because their manners differ from ours."
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"Let me even say before I even get inaugurated, during the transition we are going to be having meetings all across the country with community organizations so that you have input into the agenda for the next presidency of the United States of America."
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"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow."
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"It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent."
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