The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
BARACK OBAMAIt 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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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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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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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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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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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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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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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