Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition…

Barack Obama
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. ✨ Barack Obama's commencement speech at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.
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Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. And it will leave you unfulfilled. ✨ Barack Obama's commencement speech at Northwestern University, www.northwestern.edu. June 19, 2006.

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