I think, as you get older, that’s when your ambitions become “peculiar”.
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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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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled.
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Don’t just get involved. Fight for your seat at the table. Better yet, fight for a seat at the head of the table.
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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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While we breathe, we will hope.
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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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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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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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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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Our destiny is not written for us, but by us.
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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.
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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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Nothing can stand in the way of the power of millions of voices calling for change.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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