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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 happiest people are those who do the most for others. The most miserable are those who do the least.
Great men cultivate love...only little men cherish a spirit of hatred
Living is the art of loving. Loving is the art of caring. Caring is the art of sharing. Sharing is the art of living. If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
Holding a grudge does not hurt the person against whom the grudge is held, it hurts the one who holds it.
Decide to be your best. In the long run the world is going to want and have the best and that might as well be you.
No greater injury can be done to any youth than to let him feel that because he belongs to this or that race he will be advanced in life regardless of his own merits or efforts.
No race can prosper till it learns that there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem.
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.
Excellence is to do a common thing in an uncommon way.
If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.