Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
BARACK OBAMANo one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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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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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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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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As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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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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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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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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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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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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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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