There is no excuse for not trying.
BARACK OBAMAWhat makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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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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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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Hope – Hope in the face of difficulty. Hope in the face of uncertainty. The audacity of hope! In the end, that is God’s greatest gift to us. A belief in things not seen. A belief that there are better days ahead.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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Change is never easy, but always possible.
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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.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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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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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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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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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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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 you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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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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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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Of all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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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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