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Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

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The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.

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A change is brought about because ordinary people do extraordinary things.

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Yes We Can!

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We are the change we have been waiting for.

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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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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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What I’ve realized is that life doesn’t count for much unless you’re willing to do your small part to leave our children — all of our children — a better world. Any fool can have a child. That doesn’t make you a father. It’s the courage to raise a child that makes you a father.

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Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

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You can’t let your failures define you. You have to let your failures teach you.

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We need to internalize this idea of excellence. Not many folks spend a lot of time trying to be excellent.

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A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.

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This is the moment when we must come together to save this planet. Let us resolve that we will not leave our children a world where the oceans rise and famine spreads and terrible storms devastate our lands.

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I've got two daughters. 9 years old and 6 years old. I am going to teach them first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don't want them punished with a baby.

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The fact that my 15 minutes of fame has extended a little longer than 15 minutes is somewhat surprising to me and completely baffling to my wife.

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Our stories may be singular, but our destination is shared.

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Enthusiasm makes up for a host of deficiencies.