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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

Booker T. Washington

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.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Habit might Two
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Essential Progress Purity Separate
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Less Misery People
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Himself Hold Man
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Become Life Surprise Whole
At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Economic Education Independence Politics Race Religion
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Foundation Mean Thinking
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Knowing Leader Political
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
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Generosity Help Hold Kindness
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Humility Karma Life
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
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Exception Ourselves Validation Value
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Intellectual Live Man Material Place Reward

Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

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