Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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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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Our journey is not complete until our gay brothers and sisters are treated like anyone else under the law.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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To those leaders around the globe who seek to sow conflict, or blame their society’s ills on the West – know that your people will judge you on what you can build, not what you destroy.
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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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