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Barack Obama Quotes: At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.
         

At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better.


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



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



Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.

Keep exploring. Keep dreaming. Keep asking why. Don’t settle for what you already know. Never stop believing in the power of your ideas, your imagination, your hard work to change the world.



When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.

When ignorant folks want to advertise their ignorance, you don't really have to do anything, you just let them talk.



Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.

Just because we have the best hammer does not mean that every problem is a nail.



Change is never easy, but always possible.

Change is never easy, but always possible.



Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.

Don’t ever let anybody tell you that your efforts don’t matter or that your voice doesn’t count. Don’t ever believe that you can’t make a difference. You have.



Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.

Where you are right now doesn't have to determine where you'll end up.



Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.

Learning to stand in somebody else's shoes, to see through their eyes, that's how peace begins. And it's up to you to make that happen. Empathy is a quality of character that can change the world.



If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.

If somebody is different from you, that's not something you criticize, that's something that you appreciate.





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