Success is not measured by the position one has reached in life, rather by the obstacles one overcomes while trying to succeed ― Booker T. Washington

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An inch of progress is worth more than a yard of complaint.

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There is a certain class of race problem-solvers who don't want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.

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The world cares little about what a man knows;it cares more about what a man is able to do. ― Booker T. Washington

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Associate yourself with people of good quality, for it is better to be alone than to be in bad company. ― Booker T. Washington

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There's no Peter York Foundation, and you're no one without one. - Peter York

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The thing to do when one feels sure that he has said or done the right thing and is condemned, is to stand still and keep quiet. If he is right, time will show it. ― Booker T. Washington

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When men are arrested without any legal basis and for political reasons, it's merely a routine, everyday occurrence in Russia, and hardly anyone has any sympathy. -Alexei Navalny

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Never get to the point where you will be ashamed to ask anybody for information. The ignorant man will always be ignorant if he fears that by asking another for information he will display ignorance. Better once display your ignorance of a certain subject than always know nothing of it.

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Freedom without limits is just a word. - Terry Pratchett

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