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The fact is, with every friendship you make, and every bond of trust you establish, you are shaping the image of America projected to the rest of the world. That is so important. So when you study abroad, you're actually helping to make America stronger.

© Michelle Obama
#america

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.

© Mark Twain

When you want to help people, you tell them the truth. When you want to help yourself, you tell them what they want to hear.

© Thomas Sowell

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

© James Baldwin

It's a beautiful thing, the destruction of words.

© George Orwell

Although there may be tragedy in your life, there's always a possibility to triumph. It doesn't matter who you are, where you come from. The ability to triumph begins with you. Always.

© Oprah Winfrey

It is better to be alone than in bad company.

© George Washington

The trouble is not in dying for a friend, but in finding a friend worth dying for.

© Mark Twain

I knew nothing but shadows and I thought them to be real.

© Oscar Wilde

No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.

© Ernest Hemingway
#fall