I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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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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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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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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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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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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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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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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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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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do 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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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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