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Michelle Obama

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
Kids will invest more, when they feel they’re being invested in.
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Children Feeling Investment Worth
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
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
Even white people were recognizing him now.
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Himself People Recognize Worth
What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.
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End Grow Up Yourself
Your story is what you have, what you will always have. It is something to own.
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Instagram Captions Life Story Yourself
The burden of assimilation is put largely on the shoulders of minority students.
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Education Student
For me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.
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Achievement End Growth Journey Myself See
Empower yourselves with a good education, then get out there and use that education to build a country worthy of your boundless promise.
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Education Goodness Promise Woman Empowerment Worth Yourself
Fulfillment, I’m sure, struck her as a rich person’s conceit.
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Person Rich Satisfaction
He’s always asking: ‘Is that new? I haven’t seen that before.’ It’s like, Why don’t you mind your own business? Solve world hunger. Get out of my closet.
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Business Himself Mindset Problem See World
Failure is a feeling long before it becomes an actual result
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Failure Feeling Inspirational Result
I wanted Americans to understand that words matter—that the hateful language they heard coming from their TVs did not reflect the true spirit of our country and that we could vote against it.
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Country Hate Language Myself Reflection Spirit True Understand Word
We should always have three friends in our lives-one who walks ahead who we look up to and follow; one who walks beside us, who is with us every step of our journey; and then, one who we reach back for and bring along after we’ve cleared the way.
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Friendship Journey Live
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

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