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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.
— Booker T. Washington Up from Slavery
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I have learned that success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has had to overcome while trying to succeed.
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No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
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