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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

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
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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Country Enough Knowing People
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Integrate Result
I believe that my race will succeed in proportion as it learns to do a common thing in an uncommon manner; learns to do a thing so thoroughly that no one can improve upon what it has done; learns to make its services of indispensable value.
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Believe Done Race
I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit of holding race prejudice, for nothing else makes one so blind and narrow.
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Heart Prejudice Race
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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Buckets Common Way
One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.
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Down Man One Remaining
The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it.
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Done Quiet Said
It often requires more courage to suffer in silence than to rebel, more courage not to strike back than to retaliate, more courage to be silent than to speak.
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Courage Rebel Silence Suffering
No white American ever thinks that any other race is wholly civilized until he wears the white man’s clothes, eats the white man’s food, speaks the white man’s language, and professes the white man’s religion.
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Food Men Thinking
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
I pity from the bottom of my heart any nation or body of people that is so unfortunate as to get entangled in the net of slavery.
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Heart Nation People Slave Unfortunate
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Exception Hard Work Result Worth
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Capture Determination Patience Strength Success
Think about it: we went into slavery pagans; we came out Christians. We went into slavery pieces of property; we came out American citizens.
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Christian Hands Thinking

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