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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More Barack Obama Quotes
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We are the change we have been waiting for.
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In the face of impossible odds, people who love this country can change it.
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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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If you’re a strong man, you should not feel threatened by strong women.
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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it.
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We don’t turn back. We leave no one behind. We pull each other up.
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Find somebody to be successful for. Raise their hopes. Rise to their needs.
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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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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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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 lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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One thing I don’t like is when you disrespect the law.
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Theoretically, there is nothing that can stop the government from taxing 100 per cent of income so long as the people get benefits from the government commensurate with their income which is taxed.
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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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