"What makes you a man is not..." - Quote by Barack Obama
What makes you a man is not the ability to make a child, it's the courage to raise one.
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“One of the things that you learn, having been in this [President's] office for four years, is the old adage of Abraham Lincoln's. That with public opinion there's nothing you can't do and without public opinion there's very little you can get done.”
“What can I do to make sure that middle-class families are feeling more secure, that more young people are able to access opportunity, that we are safe, that we are working with our international partners to try to create more order at a time when there's a lot of chaos? How do we deal with terrorism in a way that's consistent with our values? As long as I stay focused on those north stars, then I tend not to get too rattled.”
“Our intelligence communities spend a lot of time and effort gathering a lot of strands and a lot of data [on Russian hacking]. There are times where they're very cautious and they say, "We think this is what happened, but we're not certain."”
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“Someone once said that every man is trying to live up to his father's expectations or make up for their father's mistakes.”
“Be the best father you can be to your children. Because nothing is more important.”
“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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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.”
“Courage is exhilarating.”
“The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing. He may avoid suffering and sorrow, but he simply cannot learn, feel, change, grow or love. Chained by his certitude, he is a slave; he has forfeited his freedom. Only the person who risks is truly free.”