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    Bill Clinton
    “When our memories outweigh our dreams, it is then that we become old.”
    ― Bill Clinton
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    Barack Obama
    “In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: america, history, hope
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    Barack Obama
    “Yes We Can!”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: action, hope, positivity
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    Barack Obama
    “I'm inspired by the people I meet in my travels--hearing their stories, seeing the hardships they overcome, their fundamental optimism and decency. I'm inspired by the love people have for their children. And I'm inspired by my own children, how full they make my heart. They make me want to work to make the world a little bit better. And they make me want to be a better man.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: family, hope, service
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    Barack Obama
    “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.”
    ― Barack Obama
    tags: determination, helping-others, hope, initiative, just-do-it, proactivity, service, volunteerism, work
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    Barack Obama
    “If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.”
    ― Barack Obama
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: civic-duty, civic-responsibility, inaugural-address, politics
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    John Fitzgerald Kennedy
    “Forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.”
    ― John F. Kennedy
    tags: forgiveness, vigilance
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    Calvin Coolidge
    “Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'Press On!' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.”
    ― Calvin Coolidge
    tags: attitude, attributed-no-source, determination, persistence
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    Leon C. Megginson
    “It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.”
    ― Leon C. Megginson
    tags: interesting
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: challanges
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Knock at Midnight: Inspiration from the Great Sermons of Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr.
    tags: hatred, wisdom
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: war
    528 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Intelligence plus character-that is the goal of true education.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: education
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “the time is always right to do the right thing”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Wars are poor chisels for carving out peaceful tomorrows.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: war
    766 likes

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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational-faith
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “If you can't fly then run, if you can't run then walk, if you can't walk then crawl, but whatever you do you have to keep moving forward.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Those who are not looking for happiness are the most likely to find it, because those who are searching forget that the surest way to be happy is to seek happiness for others.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: happiness
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: ignorance
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  • #23
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Returning violence for violence multiplies violence, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars... Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: peace
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  • #24
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Like anybody, I would like to have a long life. Longevity has its place. But I'm not concerned about that now. I just want to do God's will.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: foreboding, life
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  • #25
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “We must live together as brothers or perish together as fools.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: brotherhood, inspirational, wisdom
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “As my sufferings mounted I soon realized that there were two ways in which I could respond to my situation -- either to react with bitterness or seek to transform the suffering into a creative force. I decided to follow the latter course.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
    tags: activism, healing, inspirational, justice, sacrifice
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., I Have a Dream: Writings and Speeches That Changed the World
    tags: inspirational
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “The more I thought about human nature, the more I saw how our tragic inclination for sin/mistakes causes us to use our minds to rationalize our action.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr.
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  • #30
    Mark Twain
    “If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: lies, lying, memory, truth
    92175 likes



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