You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
BARACK OBAMANo religion is responsible for terrorism. People are responsible for violence and terrorism.
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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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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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Why can’t I just eat my waffle?
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I think perhaps education doesn’t do us much good unless it is mixed with sweat.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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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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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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Where you are right now doesn’t have to determine where you’ll end up.
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Cynicism is a sorry kind of wisdom.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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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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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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Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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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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It should be the power of our vote, not the size of our bank accounts, that drives our democracy.
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Yes We Can!
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To be black was to be the beneficiary of a great inheritance, a special destiny, glorious burdens that only we were strong enough to bear.
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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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Persevere. Nothing worthwhile is easy.
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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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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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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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I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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