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My whole life has largely been one of surprises.

Booker T. Washington

The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the less fortunate.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Civilization Fortunate Hands Help Race Test Willing
I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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Learning Measurement Myself Position Success
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
We all should rise, above the clouds of ignorance, narrowness, and selfishness.
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Clouds Ignorance Selfishness
An ounce of application is worth a ton of abstraction.
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Abstraction Application Practical
I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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Hate Himself Low Man Myself
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.
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Determination Waiting
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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Body Heart People
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
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Hold Hurt Oneself Person
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Development Exception High Intelligence Security
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
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Common Excellence Way
I shall never permit myself to stoop so low as to hate any man.
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Hate Men Permit
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
You may fill your heads with knowledge or skillfully train your hands, but unless it is based upon high, upright character, upon a true heart, it will amount to nothing. You will be no better than the most ignorant.
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Head Heart Ignorance Knowledge Skills Training Yourself
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

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