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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
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"When you and I met, the meeting was over very shortly, it was nothing. Now it is growing something as we remember it, what will it be when I remember it as I lie down to die, what it makes in me all my days till then - that is the real meeting. The other is only the beginning of it. You say you have poets in your world. Do they not teach you this?"

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C. S. Lewis Writer, Scholar
World

"If the world is meaningless, then so are we; if we mean something, we do not mean alone."

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B. F. Skinner Psychologist, Behaviorist
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"The world's a poor standard. any society which is free of hunger and violence looks bright against that background."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father."

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Barack Obama Politician
World

"Let us reach for the world that ought to be -- that spark of the divine that still stirs within each of our souls."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Having the United Kingdom in the European Union gives us much greater confidence about the strength of the transatlantic union and is part of the cornerstone of institutions built after World War II that has made the world safer and more prosperous."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"There are folks who will equivocate. They'll say, 'You know, I'm not a scientist.' Well, I'm not either. But the best scientists in the world know that climate change is happening."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Throughout American history, there have been moments that call on us to meet the challenges of an uncertain world, and pay whatever price is required to secure our freedom."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"Torture is how you create enemies, not how you defeat them... Torture is how you get bad information, not good intelligence. Torture is how you set back America's standing in the world, not how you strengthen it."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"So on this Human Rights Day, let us rededicate ourselves to the advancement of human rights and freedoms for all, and pledge always to live by the ideals we promote to the world."

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Barack Obama Politician
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"There is enough oil out there for world demand. It is true that a lot of what's driving oil prices up right now is not the lack of supply. There's enough supply."

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