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Success waits patiently for anyone who has the determination and strength to seize it.

Booker T. Washington

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

Beat Borrow Language Occasion Vocabulary Word
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
A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it was helpful to humanity.
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Help Humanity Life Worth
Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker… there is no escape… people drag others or lift others up.
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Ethics People Stronger
The longer I live and the more I study the question, the more I am convinced that it is not so much the problem of what you will do with Negro, as what the Negro will do with you and your ‘civilization’.
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Civilization Problem Study
…those who are guilty of such sweeping criticisms [of the rich] do not know how many people would be made poor, and how much sufering would result, if wealthy people were to part all at once with any large proportion of their wealth in a way to disorganize and cripple great business enterprises.
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Criticism People Proposition Result
Character is power.
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Character One Liner Power
You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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Help Himself Man Trouble Understand
Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.
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Compassionate Generosity Happiness
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
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
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
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Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach
There is no escape – man drags man down, or man lifts man up.
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Escape Help Man
The older I grow, the more I am convinced that there is no education which one can get from books and costly apparatus that is equal to that which can be gotten from contact with great men and women.
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Book Equal Men
The actual sight of a first-class house that a Negro has built is ten times more potent than pages of discussion about a house that he ought to build, or perhaps could build.
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Class House Sight
Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.
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Alone Character Economy Freedom Intelligence Man Politics Skills

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