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.
BARACK OBAMAThe worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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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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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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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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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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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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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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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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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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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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