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Barack Obama Politician
May

"If in fact the Republicans make some modifications [of Obamacare], some of which I may have been seeking previously, but they wouldn't cooperate because they didn't wanna make the system work, and re-label it as Trumpcare, I'm fine with that."

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Barack Obama Politician
May

"Sometimes they're nothing, sometimes they're something, sometimes there's a connection that years later may show up. All of this information is useful."

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Barack Obama Politician
May

"Better may not be as good as the best, but better is surprisingly hard to obtain. And better is actually harder than worse."

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Barack Obama Politician
May

"We may never understand what leads anybody to terrorize their fellow human beings. Such violence, such evil is senseless. It's beyond reason."

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May

"The experience you’ve had may be unwanted, may amount to nothing but damage and waste, but experience has substance, is factual, authoritative, lives on in your past and affects your present, whatever you attempt to do about it."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"You accept whatever happens in the present moment, the only place where it can happen. Internally, you fully accept what is happening, and what is happening may include an emotion, a stream of anxiety that suddenly comes up within you."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"The energy that flows into what you do, although it may be high energy, is very peaceful energy. It is not out of alignment with life."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"Oprah [Winfrey] and I share a similar consciousness of spirit that is manifested in what some may call God or simply Spirit but others call it the Godhead manifestation of karmic virtue."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"Complete surrender usually happens through living. Your very life is the ground where that happens. There may be a partial surrender and then there may be an opening, and then you may engage in spiritual practice."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"Whatever you want to achieve is secondary: the business, the exchange of information, whatever it may be. Yes, you do that also, but there is a deeper foundation - meeting that human being in a state of shared presence."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"If you cannot accept an external event immediately, then some kind of resistance will come up. And there may be some external events you cannot accept at all."

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Eckhart Tolle Spiritual Teacher, Author
May

"In certain extreme cases, medication may be necessary. But it is given far too often, too easily, and too readily. Millions of children already are on tranquilizers, for example, and that is absurd."

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"The conceptions which any nation or individual entertains of the God of its popular worship may be inferred from their own actions and opinions, which are the subjects of their approbation among their fellow-men."

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