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"My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing."
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"Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated failures. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."

"The chance that you will become a master in something after the first attempt is neither here nor there. You don't get master's degree by attending school on the first day! Time will tell, so you got to persist!"

"Collegiate life presents a student with innumerable opportunities to engender personal growth by responding to a dynamic social, athletic, and academic environment. Students instigate personal development by making calculated and rash personal decisions pertaining to what activities to pursue and by measuring their string of reactions to new experiences."
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"Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!"

"I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do."

"If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!"

"Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time."

"My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong."

"I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone."

"The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win."
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