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Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.

Benjamin E. Mays

In this perilous world, if a black boy wanted to live a halfway normal life and die a natural death he had to learn early the art of how to get along with white folks.
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Art Boys Halfway Normal White
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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Communication Honest Integrity
It isn’t a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for.
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Goal Life Reaching Stars
It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.
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Capture Disaster Ideals
We, today, stand on the shoulders of our predecessors who have gone before us. We, as their successors, must catch the torch of freedom and liberty passed on to us by our ancestors. We cannot lose in this battle.
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Battle Liberty Today
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
The tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach. It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream…It is not a disgrace not to reach the stars, but it is a disgrace to have no stars to reach for. Not failure, but low aim is sin.
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Dream Lying Stars
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
Whatever you do, do it so well that people looking on will feel that the task was reserved especially for you by God Himself.
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People Tasks Wells
Many well-meaning intelligent people have argued since the May 17, 1954, decision of the United States Supreme Court outlawing segregation in the public schools that communication between the races has broken down.
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Communication Intelligent School
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
It is not your environment, it is you- the quality of your mind, the integrity of your soul and the determination of your will that will decide your future and shape your life.
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Determination Integrity Soul
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss
A child must learn early to believe that she is somebody worthwhile, and that she can do many praiseworthy things.
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Believe Children Inspirational

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