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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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Top 5 quotes from Booker T. Washington
"Character, not circumstances, makes the man."
"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."
"One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him."
"There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up."
"I have learnt 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 overcome while trying to succeed."
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"It is perfectly monstrous the way people go about, nowadays, saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true."
"None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them."
"No man ever listened himself out of a job."
"What this country needs is more free speech worth listening to."
"People have to talk about something just to keep their good voice boxes in working order, so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say."
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