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Michelle Obama

Do we settle for the world as it is, or do we work for the world as it should be?
MICHELLE OBAMA

Deep Philosophy World
Time, as far as my father was concerned, was a gift you gave to other people.
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Father Gift People Time
Everyone on Earth, they’d tell us, was carrying around an unseen history, and that alone deserved some tolerance.
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Alone Carry Deserve History See Tolerance
Everything was not lost. This was the message we needed to carry forward. It’s what I truly believed. It wasn’t ideal, but it was our reality—the world as it is. We needed now to be resolute, to keep our feet pointed in the direction of progress.
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Believe Direction Ideal Lost Myself Need Ourselves Reality True
Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.
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Kind Oppression Power Ugly
Inspiration on its own was shallow; you had to back it up with hard work.
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Inspirational Shallow Success
Do not bring people in your life who weigh you down. And trust your instincts, good relationships feel good. They feel right. They don’t hurt. They’re not painful. That’s not just with somebody you want to marry, but it’s with the friends that you choose. It’s with the people you surround yourselves with.
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Friendship Goodness Hurt Life Marriage People Relationship Right Trust
No one, I realized, was going to look out for me unless I pushed for it.
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Effort Inspirational Myself
a happy marriage can be a vexation, that it’s a contract best renewed and renewed again, even quietly and privately—even alone.
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Alone Happiness Marriage Private Quiet
As a kid, you learn to measure long before you understand the size or value of anything. Eventually, if you’re lucky, you learn that you’ve been measuring all wrong.
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Children Learning Understand Value Wrong
Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Children Feeling Investment Worth
Changing the big picture takes time.. and the best things to do is focus on the things that we can make in our lives if we’re doing all that. That becomes the collage of real change
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Change Focus Live Photograph Reality
Friendships between women, as any woman will tell you, are built of a thousand small kindnesses, swapped back and forth and over again.
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Friendship Kindness Woman
Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Person Rich Satisfaction
Life was teaching me that progress and change happen slowly. Not in two years, four years, or even a lifetime. We were planting seeds of change, the fruit of which we might never see. We had to be patient.
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Change Life Myself Patience Teaching
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Fame Hate Success

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