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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

I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Hate Man Myself Permit
In any country, regardless of what its laws say, wherever people act upon the idea that the disadvantage of one man is the good of another, there slavery exists.
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Country Disadvantage Law Men People
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
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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Inspirational Inspiring Success
Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top.
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Bottom Common Labor
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
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Best Decision World Yourself
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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Poem Prosperity Race Writing
No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Humility Karma Life
I have begun everything with the idea that I could succeed, and I never had much patience with the multitudes of people who are always ready to explain why one cannot succeed.
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Ideas People Succeed
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstances Men
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows; it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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Care Count Man Woman World
I would permit no man, no matter what his colour might be, to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Angel Hate Positive
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Deal Foundation Greatness Myself Start Thinking
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles

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