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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

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I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Man Myself Permit
Ignorance is more costly to any State than education.
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Country Ignorance People States
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grievance Opportunity
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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Inspirational Knowledge Wisdom
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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Help Himself Place Responsibility Trust Yourself
Nothing ever comes to one, that is worth having, except as a result of hard work.
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Inspirational Success Uplifting
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
In all things that are purely social we can be as separate as the fingers, yet one as the hand in all things essential to mutual progress.
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Essential Progress Purity Separate
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
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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Inspirational Work Writing
Leaders have devoted themselves to politics, little knowing, it seems that political independence disappears without economic independence that economic independence is the foundation of political independence.
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Knowing Leader Political
We went into slavery with chains clanking about our wrists; we came out with the American ballot in our hands.
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Clanking Country Hands Want
We must reinforce argument with results.
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Argument Country People Results
The happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
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Happiness Less Misery People
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come
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Inspirational Motivational Obstacles
There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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Earth Influence Life Power Simplicity

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