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One of the things that has helped me as much as any other is not how long I am going to live, but how much I can do while living.

George Washington Carver

Reading about nature is fine, but if a person walks in the woods and listens carefully, he can learn more than what is in books, for they speak with the voice of God.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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To those who have as yet not learned the secret of true happiness, which is the joy of coming into the closest relationship with the Maker and Preserver of all things: begin now to study the little things in your own door yard.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.
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The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.
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Young people, I want to beg of you always keep your eyes open to what Mother Nature has to teach you. By so doing you will learn many valuable things every day of your life.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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When our thoughts – which bring actions – are filled with hate against anyone, Negro or white, we are in a living hell. That is as real as hell will ever be.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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No individual has any right to come into the world and go out of it without leaving behind him distinct and legitimate reasons for having passed through it.
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There is literally nothing that I ever asked to do, that I asked the blessed Creator to help me to do, that I have not been able to accomplish.
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Without my Savior, I am nothing.
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My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater.
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Education, in the broadest of truest sense, will make an individual seek to help all people, regardless of race, regardless of color, regardless of condition.
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God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?
GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER

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