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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.

Barack Obama

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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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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No religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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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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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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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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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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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.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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I’m a warrior for the middle class.
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Let us remember that we can do these things not just because of wealth or power, but because of who we are: one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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