The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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More Barack Obama Quotes
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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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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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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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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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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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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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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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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