If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own. You didn’t get there on your own! I’m always struck by people who think, “Well, it must be ‘cause I was just so smart!” There are a lot of smart people out there. “It must be because I worked harder than everybody else.” Let me tell you something: There are a whole bunch of hardworkin’ people out there. If you were successful, somebody along the line gave you some help.

President Barack Obama

Apparently this is a controversial statement? Even though it’s true? (via annaetc)

I tried but failed to find (lol logic) what is controversial about it. Never mind the notion that no human being is an island, there’s still the pesky truth about roads, law enforcement, municipal services, and schools. Unless you were spontaneously born with some magically affixed bootstraps in a bubble in the vacuum of space, and arrive on earth fully formed without the assistance of NASA, you did not become whoever you are without other human beings.

There is literally no one in the Republican party I don’t hate right now.

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(Source: shakesville.com)