Sometimes, when you least expect it, you'll realize that someone loved you. And that means that someone can love you again! And that will make you smile. —Homer Simpson

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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.

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Normally, in anything I do, I'm fairly miserable. I do it, and I get grumpy because there is a huge, vast gulf, this aching disparity, between the platonic ideal of the project that was living in my head, and the small, sad, wizened, shaking, squeaking thing that I actually produce. ― Neil Gaiman

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Those who decide to use leisure as a means of mental development, who love good music, good books, good pictures, good company, good conversation, are the happiest people in the world. ― Willaim Lyon Phelps

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Political activity alone cannot make a man free. Back of the ballot, he must have property, industry, skill, economy, intelligence, and character.

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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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Character, not circumstance, makes the person. ― Booker T. Washington

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Things which matter most must never be at the mercy of things which matter least. ― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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I will permit no man to narrow and degrade my soul by making me hate him. ― Booker T. Washington

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

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