Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
BARACK OBAMAWe lose ourselves when we compromise the very ideals that we fight to defend. And we honor those ideals by upholding them not when it’s easy, but when it is hard.
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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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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.
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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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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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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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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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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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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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 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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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