Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
BARACK OBAMAWe did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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In 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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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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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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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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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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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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It is moments like these that force us to try harder, and dig deeper, and to discover gifts we never knew we had – to find the greatness that lies within each of us.
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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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