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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.

Barack Obama

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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Ambition Focus Life Poverty Realize Yourself
You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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Fashion Funny Humour Insult Lipstick Pig
For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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Heritage Inspirational Strength Success Weakness
There is no excuse for not trying.
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Failure Motivational One Liner Success
The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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Education Inspirational One Liner Poverty World
Together we resolve that a great nation must care for the vulnerable and protect its people from life’s worst hazards and misfortune.
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Misfortune Nation People Team Work Togetherness
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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Bullying Future Girl School Women World
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
Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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Proud Religion Tolerance Tradition
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening foreign entity, it ignores the fact that, in our democracy, government is us.
BARACK OBAMA

Democracy Entity Foreign Government Ignorance Speak
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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Born Different Man Mistake Wealth Young
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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God Justice Liberty Patriotism Power Wealth
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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Reading makes all other learning possible. We have to get books into our children’s hands early and often.
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A child’s course in life should be determined not by the zip code she’s born in, but by the strength of her work ethic and the scope of her dreams.
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Born Children Determination Dreamss Ethics Life
One voice can change a room, and if one voice can change a room, then it can change a city, and if it can change a city, it can change a state, and if it change a state, it can change a nation, and if it can change a nation, it can change the world. Your voice can change the world.
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Change Inspirational Nation Room World

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