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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Booker T. Washington

We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
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Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Down Man One Remaining
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
Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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Family Inspiration Success
I believe that one always does himself and his audience an injustice when he speaks merely for the sake of speaking.
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Believe Health Heart
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.
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Go Letting Men Stay Strong
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
Many strikes and similar disturbances might be avoided if the employers would cultivate the habit of getting nearer to their employees, of consulting and advising with them, and letting them feel that the interests of the two are the same.
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Habit might Two
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Inspirational Motivational Success
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth

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