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There is a use for almost everything.
George Washington Carver
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George Washington Carver
Age: 79 †
Born: 1864
Born: January 1
Died: 1943
Died: January 5
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I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.
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Learn to do the common things uncommonly well.
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Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses.
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We have become ninety-nine percent money mad. The method of living at home modestly and within our income, laying a little by systematically for the proverbial rainy day which is due to come, can almost be listed among the lost arts.
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Whatever you love opens its secrets to you.
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I know that my Redeemer lives. Thank God I love humanity, complexion doesn't interest me one single a bit.
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There is no short cut to achievement. Life requires thorough preparation - veneer isn't worth anything.
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The secret of my success? It is simple. It is found in the Bible.
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I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for ones self.
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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.
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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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If you listen carefully enough to anything, it will talk to you.
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Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .
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Where there is no vision, there is no hope.
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The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.
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There are two ways, one is right the other is wrong. If your work is only about right, then it is wrong.
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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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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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Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise.
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We get closer to God as we get more intimately and understandingly acquainted with the things He has created. I know of nothing more inspiring than that of making discoveries for one's self.
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