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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.

Booker T. Washington

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Mere connection with what is known as a superior race will not permanently carry an individual forward unless the individual has worth.
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Carry Connection Race Superior Worth
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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Devotion Foundation Independence Leadership Politics
Character, not circumstances, makes the man.
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Character Circumstance Man
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
You go to school, you study about the Germans and the French, but not about your own race. I hope the time will come when you study black history too.
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Black Ethnic History Myself Race Time
In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not keep the world from what it wants.
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Best Different History Race Willing World
Great men cultivate love, only little men cherish a spirit of hatred.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Hate Love Spirit
Success is not measured by where you are in life, but the obstacles you’ve over come.
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Life Measurement Obstacle Success Yourself
Progress, progress is the law of nature; under God it shall be our eternal guiding star.
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God Guide Law Nature Progress Star
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Ignorance Narrow Rise Selfish
Great men cultivate love and only little men cherish a spirit of hatred; assistance given to the weak makes the one who gives it strong; oppression of the unfortunate makes one weak.
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Cherish Cultivation Greatness Love Strong Weakness
Let our opportunities overshadow our grievances.
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Grief Opportunity Ourselves Shadow
Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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Generosity Help Hold Kindness
Remember that everyone’s life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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Life Measurement Power Remember World
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
Those who have accomplished the greatest results are those who never grow excited or lose self-control, but are always calm, self-possessed, patient and polite.
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Accomplishment Greatness Patience Polite Result
If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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Attention Feeling Inheritance Life Mom Myself Worth
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.
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Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
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Effort Greatness Injury Life Race Youth
It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.
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Deal Foundation Greatness Myself Start Thinking
If you can’t read, it’s going to be hard to realize dreams.
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Dreams Hard Reading Realization
An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.
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Complain Value Worth
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
Each one should remember there is a chance for him.
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Chance Himself Remember
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
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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Beginning Ideas Oneself Patience Success
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.
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Intellectual Live Man Material Place Reward

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