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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do. ✨ President Barack Obama's remarks at the commencement ceremony at Century Campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 19, 2013.
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It betrays a poverty of ambition if all you think about is what goods you can buy instead of what good you can do. ✨ President Barack Obama's remarks at the commencement ceremony at Century Campus of Morehouse College in Atlanta, Georgia, obamawhitehouse.archives.gov. May 19, 2013.

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