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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.

Booker T. Washington

We don’t just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Communication Pockets Vocabulary
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs.
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Countries People Some Jobs Wants
I believe that any man’s life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement, if he makes up his mind to do his level best each day, and as nearly as possible reaching the high-water mark of pure and useful living.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Believe Life Live Man Possible Purity
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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Education Independence Race
I do not believe that one should speak unless, deep down in his heart, he feels convinced that he has a message to deliver.
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Convinced Heart Message Mutual Progress
We must not only become reliable, progressive, skillful and intelligent, but we must keep the idea constantly before our youths that all forms of labor, whether with the hand or head, are honorable.
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Hands Ideas Intelligent
We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers.
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Brother Color Man
I think I have learned that the best way to lift one’s self up is to help someone else.
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Help Learning Lift Myself Thinking Way
Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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Attention Life Remote Small Success
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Art Care Live Love Yourself
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Cost Education Ignorance Price State

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