Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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More Barack Obama Quotes
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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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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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I wish the country had fewer lawyers and more engineers.
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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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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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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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You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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Where there is no experience the wise man is silent.
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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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It’s important to make sure that we’re talking with each other in a way that heals, not in a way that wounds.
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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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No one built this country on their own. This nation is great because we built it together.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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