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"Don't feel entitled to anything you didn't sweat and struggle for."
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"But hell, you've gotta work with what you've got."

"Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools."

"It depends on you, to keep pushing forward until you win or giving in. Always choice the former."

"Work while you have strength."

"Talent is not enough, hard work makes the difference."
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"We must not, in trying to think about how we can make a big difference, ignore the small daily differences we can make which, over time, add up to big differences that we often cannot foresee."

"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."

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

"Remember and help America remember that the fellowship of human beings is more important than the fellowship of race and class and gender in a democratic society."

"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."

"The challenge of social justice is to evoke a sense of community that we need to make our nation a better place, just as we make it a safer place."

"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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