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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

You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Accomplishment Goal Measurement Obstacle Reach
You measure the size of the accomplishment by the obstacles you have to overcome to reach your goals.
BOOKER T. WASHINGTON

Inspirational Motivational Success
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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Communication Pockets Vocabulary
A sure way for one to lift himself up is by helping to lift someone else.
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Helping Lifts Way
No one can degrade us except ourselves.
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Degrade Positive Positivity
It is important and right that all privileges of the law be ours, but it is vastly more important that we be prepared for the exercise of those privileges.
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Exercise Important Preparation Privilege Right
Wherever, in any country the whole people feel that the happiness of all is dependent upon the happiness of the weakest, there freedom exists.
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Country Disadvantage Exist Freedom Happiness
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
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
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
There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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Defense Development Highest
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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Empowerment Yourself
The wisest among my race understand that agitations of social equality is the extremist folly, and that progress in the enjoyment of all privileges that will come to us must be the result of severe and constant struggle rather than of artificial forcing.
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Progress Race Struggle
A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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Individual Integrity Race
My whole life has largely been one of surprises.
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Life Oneself Surprise
No race that has anything to contribute to the markets of the world is long in any degree ostracized.
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Contribution Degree Market Race

We shall prosper as we learn to do the common things of life in an uncommon way. Let down your buckets where you are.

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