You didn’t elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth.
BARACK OBAMAA change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.
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You can put lipstick on a pig. It’s still a pig.
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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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Climate change constitutes a serious threat to global security.
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A lot of shelter dogs are mutts like me.
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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.
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The best anti-poverty program is a world-class education.
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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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History doesn’t always move in a straight line. Sometimes it zigs and zags.
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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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The worst thing that colonialism did was to cloud our view of our past.
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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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If somebody is different from you, that’s not something you criticize, that’s something that you appreciate.
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We did not come to fear the future. We came here to shape it.
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Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.
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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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There is no excuse for not trying.
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Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.
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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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Reading is important. If you know how to read then the whole world opens up to you
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When times get tough, we don’t give up. We get up.
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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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A nation that can’t control its energy sources can’t control its future.
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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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If you’ve got a business, you didn’t build that.
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We may not be able to stop evil in the world, but how we treat one another is entirely up to us.
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The best judge of whether or not a country is going to develop is how it treats its women
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