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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

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The tragedy of this life is not failure, but low aim.
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Lows
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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Strive
The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It’s not failure but aiming too low, that is life’s greatest tragedy.
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Mean Motivation
The tragedy lies in having no goal to reach
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Goal Weight Loss
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 Reaching
Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.

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Honest communication is built on truth and integrity and upon respect of the one for the other.
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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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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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[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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May Today
It isn’t a calamity to die with dreams unfulfilled, but it is a calamity not to dream.
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Calamity Reaching Goals
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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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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Intelligent
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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Something
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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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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Today
Man is what his dreams are.
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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.
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Tasks Wells
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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Boys Halfway White

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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