I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
BARACK OBAMAI 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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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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It 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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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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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 worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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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The sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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We don’t ask you to believe in our ability to bring change, rather, we ask you to believe in yours.
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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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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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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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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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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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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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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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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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