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.
BARACK OBAMAPersevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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The opportunity will not remain open indefinitely.
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When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don’t really have to do anything, you just let them talk.
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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We must act, knowing that our work will be imperfect.
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Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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The real test is not whether you avoid failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it.
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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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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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Yes We Can!
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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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