Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father’s expectations or make up for their father’s mistakes.
BARACK OBAMAGreatness is never free; it must be earned.
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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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I think a basic principle of our Constitution is nobody above the law
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Love and hope can conquer hate.
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On every continent, there are girls who will go on to change the world in ways we can only imagine, if only we allow them the freedom to dream.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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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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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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It’s not just enough to change the players. We’ve gotta change the game.
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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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Who you are and who you love should never be a fireable offense.
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There is no excuse for not trying.
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What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it’s the courage to raise one.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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When our interests and values are at stake, we have a responsibility to act.
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Greatness is never free; it must be earned.
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The future must not belong to those who bully women. It must be shaped by girls who go to school and those who stand for a world where our daughters can live their dreams just like our sons.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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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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One of the best investments we can make in a child’s life is high-quality early education.
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