What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
BARACK OBAMAThe 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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Any time bombs are used to target civilians it is an act of terror.
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While we breathe, we will hope.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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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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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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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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