Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
BARACK OBAMAOf all the rocks upon which we build our lives, we are reminded today that family is the most important.
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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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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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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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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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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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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 sweetest sound I know is the Muslim call to prayer.
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Take off your bedroom slippers, put on your marching shoes. Shake it off. Stop complaining, stop grumbling, stop crying. We are going to press on. We’ve got work to do.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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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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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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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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