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Lay hold of something that will help you, and then use it to help somebody else.
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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The circumstances that surround a man's life are not important. How that man responds to those circumstances IS IMPORTANT. His response is the ultimate determining factor between success and failure.
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You must understand the troubles of that man farthest down before you can help him.
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In my contact with people, I find that, as a rule, it is only the little, narrow people who live for themselves, who never read good books, who do not travel, who never open up their souls in a way to permit them to come into contact with other souls – with the great outside world.
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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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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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Start where you are with what you have, knowing that what you have is plenty enough.
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I think I have learned, in some degree at least, to disregard the old maxim Do not get others to do what you can do yourself. My motto on the other hand is Do not do that which others can do as well.
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There is no power on earth that can neutralize the influence of a high, simple and useful life.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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There is no defense or security for any of us except in the highest intelligence and development of all.
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