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I hoped for something else. it's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the american experience. one that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.
-Barack Obama
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Barack Obama
I hoped for something else. it's a simple dream, but it speaks to us so powerfully because it is our dream - one that exists at the very center of the american experience. one that says if you're willing to work hard and take responsibility, then you'll have the chance to reach for something else; for something better.
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Our job as americans is to restore that basic bargain that says, if you work hard, if you're willing to meet your responsibilities, you can get ahead. you can get ahead. doesn't matter what you look like, doesn't matter where you come from. our middle class, when it's growing, when it's thriving, when there are ladders of opportunity for people to do a little bit better each year and then make sure that their kids are doing even better than them, that's the american dream. that's what we got to fight for. that has to be the north star that guides everything we do.
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The gods can either take away evil from the world and will not, or, being willing to do so, cannot; or they neither can nor will, or lastly, they are both able and willing. if they have the will to remove evil and cannot, then they are not omnipotent. if they can, but will not, than they are not benevolent. if they are neither able nor willing, then they are neither omnipotent nor benevolent. lastly, if they are both able and willing to annihilate evil, how does it exist?
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