You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day.

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No one, Eleanor Roosevelt said, can make you feel inferior without your consent. Never give it.

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Learn to be quiet enough to hear the genuine within yourself so that you can hear it in others.

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Education is for improving the lives of others and for leaving your community and world better than you found it.

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The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children.

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Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time.

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You didn't have a choice about the parents you inherited, but you do have a choice about the kind of parent you will be.

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If you don't like the way the world is, you change it. You have an obligation to change it. You just do it one step at a time.

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People who don't vote have no line of credit with people who are elected and thus pose no threat to those who act against our interests.

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We are willing to spend the least amount of money to keep a kid at home, more to put him in a foster home and the most to institutionalize him.

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