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Remember that everyone's life is measured by the power that individual has to make the world better-this is all life is.
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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Booker Taliaferro Washington
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The world cares very little about what a man or woman knows it is what the man or woman is able to do that counts.
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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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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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