We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
BARACK OBAMAI think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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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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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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Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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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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I want every young man who sees me to know that I’m not that different from them. I wasn’t born into wealth. I wasn’t born into fame. I made a lot of mistakes – but I kept at it.
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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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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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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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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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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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