On a hot July day in 2012, President Barack Obama took the stage in Roanoke, Virginia, to campaign for reelection. It was here that Obama made one of the most famous remarks of the entire presidential contest, saying: If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. I’m always struck by people who think, well, it must be because I was just so smart. It must be because I worked harder than everybody else. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help. There was a great teacher somewhere in your life. Somebody helped to create this unbelievable American system
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