If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
BARACK OBAMAIn a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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Yes We Can!
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
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If you give up on the idea that your voice can make a difference, then other voices will fill the void.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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