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Juan Williams Journalist
Office

"Hikes in the debt ceiling - without any political demands from the opposition party - had been routine until President Obama took office."

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Martin Luther Theologian
Office

"Astrology is framed by the devil, to the end people may be scared from entering into the state of matrimony, and from every divine and human office and calling."

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E. M. Forster Novelist, Essayist
Office

"It is pleasant to be transferred from an office where one is afraid of a sergeant-major into an office where one can intimidate generals, and perhaps this is why history is so attractive to the more timid among us. We can recover self-confidence by snubbing the dead."

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Barack Obama Politician
Office

"Who you are, what you are, does not change after you occupy the oval office. All it does is magnify who you are. All it does is shine a spotlight on who you are."

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Barack Obama Politician
Office

"All I care about is making sure that I leave behind an America that is stronger, more prosperous, more stable, more secure than it was when I came into office and that's going to continue to drive me."

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Calvin Coolidge Politician
Office

"Some of the offers that have come to me would never have come if I had not been President. That means these people are trying to hire not Calvin Coolidge, but a former President of the United States. I can't make that kind of use of the office.... I can't do anything that might take away from the Presidency any of its dignity, or any of the faith people have in it."

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Abraham Lincoln Political Leader
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"Fellow countrymen: At this second appearing to take the oath of the Presidential office, there is less occasion for an extended address than there was at the first...The progress of our arms, upon which all else chiefly depends, is as well known to the public as to myself; and it is, I trust, reasonably satisfactory and encouraging to all. With high hope for the future, no prediction in regard to it is ventured."

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David Hume Philosopher, Historian
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"We may observe that, in displaying the praises of any humane, beneficent man, there is one circumstance which never fails to be amply insisted on, namely, the happiness and satisfaction, derived to society from his intercourse and good offices."

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Drake Rapper, singer, songwriter
Office

"I still just like everybody else need to meet quotas with my spins, with my buzz and make my way into the office. It has to be undeniable; the world has to know about you before Jay-Z makes a call."

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Charles Dickens Novelist
Office

"... No, the office is one thing, and private life is another. When I go into the office, I leave the Castle behind me, and when I come into the Castle, I leave the office behind me."

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Conrad Aiken Poet, Novelist
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"As poetry is the highest speech of man, it can not only accept and contain, but in the end express best everything in the world, or in himself, that he discovers. It will absorb and transmute, as it always has done, and glorify, all that we can know. This has always been, and always will be, poetry's office."

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Alan Johnson Politician
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"The Government's first priority on coming to office was to secure long-term economic stability and put an end to the damaging cycle of boom and bust."

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