“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.”
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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.
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At the bottom of education, at the bottom of politics, even at the bottom of religion, there must be for our race economic independence.
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Success in life is founded upon attention to the small things rather than to the large things; to the every day things nearest to us rather than to the things that are remote and uncommon.
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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