You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to k... -Marian Wright Edelman

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

Marian Wright Edelman , Activist
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To all those mothers and fathers who are struggling with teen-agers, I say, just be patient: even though it looks like you can't do anything right for...
In every seed of good there is always a piece of bad....
Hunger and malnutrition have devastating consequences for children and have been linked to low birth weight and birth defects, obesity, mental and phy...
Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree....
In politics, there are no friends....
The future which we hold in trust for our own children will be shaped by our fairness to other people's children....
You're not obligated to win. You're obligated to keep trying to do the best you can every day....
Service is the rent we pay for being. It is the very purpose of life, and not something you do in your spare time....
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...
Never work just for money or for power. They won't save your soul or help you sleep at night....

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Students shy away from Maths, but in reality Maths is the best friend of man....
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The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all....
Prosperity is the best protector of principle....
Fatigue is the best pillow....
Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them....
Lots of young players have triumphed at United, so why can't it happen to me? I'm not worried I'm young - it's an incentive to do the best I can....
The man with the best job in the country is the vice-president. All he has to do is get up every morning and say, 'How is the president?'...
It is difficult to make our material condition better by the best law, but it is easy enough to ruin it by bad laws....
He who laughs best today, will also laughs last....