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Booker T. Washington

"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

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"Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome."

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Amber Hurdle

"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

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"What's so horrible about being dead forever, and not feeling anything, and not even dreaming? What's so great about feeling and dreaming?"

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"My father-in-law . . . was a great inspiration to me both in life and in his preparation for death."

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"Without love, life is unsustainable."

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"A genius is a person who is more observant and has more patience."

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"The mystic, identifying neither with his-her race-religion-gender nor with any mind-made blunder, lives and dies in One's splendor."

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"Old age is like everything else. To make a success of it, you've got to start young."

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"A nuclear reactor is a proposed "solution" to "the energy problem." But like all big-technological "solutions," this one "solves" a single problem by causing many...A garden, on the other hand, is a solution that leads to other solutions. It is a part of the limitless pattern of good health and good sense."

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"As I age in the world it will rise and spread,and be for this place horizonand orison, the voice of its winds.I have made myself a dream to dreamof its rising, that has gentled my nights.Let me desire and wish well the lifethese trees may live when Ino longer rise in the morningsto be pleased with the green of themshining, and their shadows on the ground, and the sound of the wind in them."

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"Dignify and glorify common labor. It is at the bottom of life that we must begin, not at the top."
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"We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers."
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