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Booker T. Washington

"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

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"We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary."

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Donna Grant

"All our words from loose using have lost their edge."

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Donna Grant

"'Mean to' don't pick no cotton."

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Donna Grant

"If Bengali is my mother, then English is my father and friend."

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Donna Grant

"Putting it into words will destroy any meaning."

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Donna Grant

"Why people use "Was" I have heard some people to say "I was a smart kid at school - Eminem", but why "Was", was is a word for describing the past... which will mean that has started and ended... so what??? How to get it now? You aren't wise, are you?"

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Donna Grant

"Words are the fallen ruins of silent majesty."

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Donna Grant

"Kitai blinked slowly. "Why would you use the same word for these things? That is ridiculous.""We have a lot of words like that," Tavi said. "They can mean more than one thing.""That is stupid," Kitai said. "It is difficult enough to communicate without making it more complicated with words that mean more than one thing."

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Donna Grant

"We don't suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters."

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Donna Grant

"Language is a tool for communicating and not a barrier to writing."

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Donna Grant

"Most of the people who have verbally asserted that 'there is no master of pronounciation' have intentionally made a claim and unintentionally made their claim believable. (It is 'pro-nun-ciation' not 'pro-noun-ciation'.)"

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Booker T. Washington
"Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way."

Excellence

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"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him."

Man

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Booker T. Washington
"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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Booker T. Washington
"Few things can help an individual more than to place responsibility on him, and to let him know that you trust him."

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Booker T. Washington
"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."

Life

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Booker T. Washington
"If you can't read, it's going to be hard to realize dreams."

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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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Booker T. Washington
"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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"At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence."

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"Character is power."

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