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.
BARACK OBAMAChange is never easy, but always possible.
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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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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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A nation ringed by walls will only imprison itself.
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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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In a global economy where the most valuable skill you can sell is your knowledge, a good education is no longer just a pathway to opportunity – it is a prerequisite.
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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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Transparency and the rule of law will be the touchstones of this presidency.
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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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Don’t shortchange the future, because of fear in the present.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance.
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For we know that our patchwork heritage is a strength, not a weakness.
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I wouldn’t be the man I am today without the woman who agreed to marry me 20 years ago
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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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