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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.

Benjamin E. Mays

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
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
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
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
Failure isn’t in not reaching your goal but in having no goal to reach.
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Goal Reaching Swimming
For nearly a century, the South made itself believe that Negroes and white people were really communicating. So convinced of this were the white Southerners that they almost made the nation believe that they, and only they, knew the mind of the Southern Negro.
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Believe People White
The circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set.
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Center Circumstances Drawn Set
You have the ability, now apply yourself.
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Ability Apply Yourself
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Lying Weight Loss
I believe everyone is born into the world to do something unique and distinctive.
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Believe Life Unique
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
It must be borne in mind that the tragedy of life doesn’t lie in not reaching your goal. The tragedy lies in having no goals to reach.
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Goals Dreams Lying Mind
The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Life Lows Tragedy
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
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
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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