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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
Booker T. Washington
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Booker T. Washington
Age: 59 †
Born: 1856
Born: April 5
Died: 1915
Died: November 14
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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.
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Do not do that which others can do as well.
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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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