Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
BARACK OBAMAYou didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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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.
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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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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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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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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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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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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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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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