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Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

Benjamin E. Mays

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
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
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
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
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
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss
[H]owever hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.
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Believe May Today Tomorrow
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
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
He who starts behind in the great race of life must forever remain behind or run faster than the man in front.
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Men Race Running
It isn’t more light we need, it isn’t more truth, and it isn’t more scientific data. It is more Christ, more courage, more spiritual insight to act on the light we have.
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God Light Spiritual
Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done.
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Men Something Unique
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
If what is communicated is false, it can hardly be called communication.
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Call Communication Hardly

Whatever you do,strive to do it so well that no man living and no man dead and no man yet to be born could do it any better.

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