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The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.

Booker T. Washington

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Few things help an individual more than to place responsibility upon him, and to let him know that you trust him.
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Even where he has the least education and the least encouragement, is incomparably better than the condition and opportunities of the agricultural population in Sicily.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Educated men and women, especially those who are in college, very often get the idea that religion is fit only for the common people. No young man or woman can make a greater error than this.
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If you truly want to measure the success of a man, you do not measure it by a position he has achieved, but by the obstacles he has overcome.
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Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.
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Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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