"No person has the right to rain on your dreams."
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"Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night."
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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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"The Declaration of Independence was always our vision of who we wanted to be, our ideal of freedom and justice, how we were going to be different, and what the American experiment was going to be about."
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