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Barack Obama: The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go…

On the recordJanuary 6, 2008
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don't wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
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Barack Obama
Democratic · Illinois

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Speech at Manchester

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