“Focusing your life solely on making a buck shows a certain poverty of ambition. It asks too little of yourself. … Because it’s only when you hitch your wagon to something larger than yourself that you realize your true potential.”

—  Barack Obama

Knox College Commencement Address (4 June 2005)
2005

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