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I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.

Michelle Obama

I’ve learned that it’s harder to hate up close.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Hard Learning Myself
I just wanted to achieve. Or maybe I didn’t want to be dismissed as incapable of achievement.
MICHELLE OBAMA

Achievement Myself Success Worth
We explain when someone is cruel or acts like a bully, you do not stoop to their level. Our motto is when they go low, you go high.
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Act Explanation Inspirational
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
Bullies were scared people hiding inside scary people.
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Fear Hide Mental People
The easiest way to disregard a woman’s voice is to package her as a scold.
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Easy Herself Oppression Voice Woman
The noise doesn’t go away, but the most successful people I know have figured out how to live with it, to lean on the people who believe in them, and to push onward with their goals.
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Believe Goal Live People Success
If you don’t get out there and define yourself, you’ll be quickly and inaccurately defined by others.
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Character Quick Yourself
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
Focus on what you can control. Be a good person every day. Vote. Read. Treat one another kindly. Follow the law. Don’t tweet nasty stuff.
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Control Focus Law Reading Yourself
You’ve got to be twice as good to get half as far.
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Character Goodness Success Yourself
Now that I’m an adult, I realize that kids know at a very young age when they’re being devalued, when adults aren’t invested enough to help them learn. Their anger over it can manifest itself as unruliness. It’s hardly their fault. They aren’t bad kids. They’re just trying to survive bad circumstances.
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Age Children Enough Investment Myself Survive Young
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
It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress.
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Direction Live Plant Possible Success
When they go low, we go high.
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Inspirational One Liner Success
Marriage, he told me early on, struck him as an unnecessary and overhyped convention.
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Himself Marriage Necessary

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