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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.

Michelle Obama

When you’re First Lady, America shows itself to you in its extremes.
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Limitation Yourself
It was painful, but time pushed us all forward.
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Hard Time Pain Success
The punches hurt, even if I understood that they had little to do with who I really was as a person.
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Hurt Myself Person Understand
Here’s a memory, which like most memories is imperfect and subjective—collected long ago like a beach pebble and slipped into the pocket of my mind.
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Collection Imperfection Memories Mindset
Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Person Rich Satisfaction
Hearing them, I realized that they weren’t at all smarter than the rest of us. They were simply emboldened, floating on an ancient tide of superiority, buoyed by the fact that history had never told them anything different.
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Different History Myself Past
It’s easier to hold onto your own stereotypes and misconceptions, it makes you feel justified in your own ignorance. That’s America. So the challenge for us is, are we ready for change?
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Challenge Change Easy Feeling Justice
His money went largely toward books, which to him were like sacred objects, providing ballast for his mind.
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Book Himself Money
failure is a feeling long before it’s an actual result.
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Failure Feeling Result
Even if we didn’t know the context, we were instructed to remember that context existed. Everyone on earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Carry Deserve Existence History Remember Tolerance
People who are truly strong lift others up. People who are truly powerful bring others together.
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People Powerful Strong Togetherness
I like the idea of being rigorous about friendship.
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Friendship Idea Myself
You find ways to adapt. If you’re in it forever, there’s really no choice.
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Choice Forever Yourself
I look back on the discomfort of that moment now and recognize the more universal challenge of squaring who you are with where you come from and where you want to go.
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Challenge Comfortable Moments Myself Yourself
I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
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Hard Learning Myself
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself

I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.

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I wasn’t going to let one person’s opinion dislodge everything I thought I knew about myself. Instead, I switched my method without changing my goal.

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