You deserve an opportunity to determine your own future, an economy that rewards your intelligence and your talents, and a society that allows you to fulfill your tremendous potential.

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But our consistent message across the region and indeed across the world is that the people deserve the right to chart their own future in a fashion that is -- that enables them to express themselves freely, assemble freely, select their leaders, and do so free of violence and intimidation.

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You also deserve to be the beneficiary of your own moral actions.

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Some say the hedge fund managers are risking their own money and deserve to pay the lower capital gains tax rates on the profits.

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Art indices are certainly helpful to a point and deserve a post of their own, but they only track art offered at auction, less than 50% of the overall market, and typically only successful sales at auction, which account for an even smaller slice.

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We believe that in a country where every race and faith and point of view can be found, we are still bound together as one people, that we share common hopes and a common creed, that the dreams of a little girl in Tucson are not so different than those of our own children, that they all deserve the chance to be fulfilled.

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Despite the lack of national policies to give dads the time off that they deserve, some states have pushed forward and implemented their own solutions.

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