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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.

Barack Obama

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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Democracy Entity Foreign Government Ignorance Speak
The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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Character Country Development Judgement Treat Women
I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
BARACK OBAMA

Country Engineer Lawyer
It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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Account Bank Democracy Money Power Vote
Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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Love Offense Respect
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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Born Different Man Mistake Wealth Young
What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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Ability Children Courage Man Raise
There is no excuse for not trying.
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Failure Motivational One Liner Success
I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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Constituation Law Nation Principle Thinking
Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.
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Bullying Deserve Freedom Happiness Insult Pursue
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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Book Children Hands Learning Possible Reading
As we look forward to the New Year, let’s resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share.
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Beginning Commitment New Year Ourselves Resolution Value
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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Believe Confidence Difference Effort Inspirational Voice
If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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Build Business Election Inspirational One Liner President
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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Belief Difficulty Faith God Hope Uncertain
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.
BARACK OBAMA

Blame Flobe Judgement Leadership People Society

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