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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Booker T. Washington

Character is power.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Character Country People
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Care Count Man Woman World
We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Buckets Common Way
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Exercise Important Law
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Exception Ourselves Validation Value
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Inspirational Life Success
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Family Inspiration Success
In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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Generosity Himself Preparation Service
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Hands Ideas Intelligent
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Clouds Ignorance Selfishness
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Architect Build Discussion Home Sight Strong

The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

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