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.
BARACK OBAMAIn the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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 opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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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 worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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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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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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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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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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