A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
BARACK OBAMAThere is no excuse for not trying.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
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If you’re walking down the right path and you’re willing to keep walking, eventually you’ll make progress.
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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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The future belongs to young people with an education and the imagination to create.
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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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There is no excuse for not trying.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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We 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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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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