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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.

Barack Obama

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.
BARACK OBAMA

Discover Force Greatness Lying Moments Try
You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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Fashion Funny Humour Insult Lipstick Pig
A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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Change Commitment Extraordinary Ordinary People
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
I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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Country Engineer Lawyer
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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Hustle Motivational Philosophy Work Hard World
Change is never easy, but always possible.
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Belief Change Confidence Inspirational One Liner Possible
A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Control Energy Future Inspirational Nation
You might be locked in a world not of your own making, her eyes said, but you still have a claim on how it is shaped. You still have responsibilities.
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Claim Eyes Lock Responsiblity Shape World
Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
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Expectation Father Humour Live Man Mistake Try
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
One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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Disrespect Insult Law One Liner
Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
BARACK OBAMA

Book Children Hands Learning Possible Reading
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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Change Inspirational Person Seek Time Wait
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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Ability Believe Change Confidence Trust Yourself
A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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Dog One Liner Race Shelter

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