When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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We lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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No, you can’t deny women their basic rights and pretend it’s about your ‘religious freedom’. If you don’t like birth control, don’t use it. Religious freedom doesn’t mean you can force others to live by your own beliefs.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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