"I never liked the atmosphere of Washington .……" — Booker T. Washington
"I never liked the atmosphere of Washington . I early saw that it was impossible to build up a race of which the leaders were spending most of their time, thought and energy in trying to get into office, or in trying to stay there after they were in."
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102 Quotes by Booker T. Washington
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If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother.
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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…
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In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous…
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Every person who has grown to any degree of usefulness, every person who has grown to distinction, almost without exception…
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The man who has learned to do something better than anyone else, has learned to do a common thing in…
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In proportion as one renders service he becomes great.
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The highest test of the civilization of any race is in its willingness to extend a helping hand to the…
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Never let your work drive you. Master it and keep it in complete control.
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I pity from the bottom of my heart any individual who is so unfortunate as to get into the habit…
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A race, like an individual, lifts itself up by lifting others up.
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A life is not worth much of which it cannot be said, when it comes to its close, that it…
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Whenever your life touches mine, you make me stronger of weaker... there is no escape... people drag others or lift…
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I would be absolutely astounded if population growth and industrialisation and all the stuff we are pumping into the atmosphere…
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A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.
— Walter Bagehot
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In '74 it was really a very gloomy atmosphere, I would say, to put it mildly.
— Mikhail Baryshnikov
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The life of our city is rich in poetic and marvelous subjects. We are enveloped and steeped as though in…
— Charles Baudelaire
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As the scene of life would be more the cold emptiness of space than the warm, dense atmosphere of planets,…
— John Desmond Bernal
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A country that has really resonated with me and I was really impressed with was Israel. I found that the…
— Andrea Bocelli
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On paper, being good sounds great but a lot depends on the atmosphere of the workplace or community we live…
— Alain de Botton
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When you love a man, he becomes more than a body. His physical limbs expand, and his outline recedes, vanishes.…
— Gwendolyn Brooks
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I didn't want to set up a women's studies program. I thought women should learn to operate in a coeducational…
— Madeleine Albright
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Academic and aristocratic people live in such an uncommon atmosphere that common sense can rarely reach them.
— Samuel Butler
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The atmosphere of libraries, lecture rooms and laboratories is dangerous to those who shut themselves up in them too long.…
— Alexis Carrel
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If the Almighty were to rebuild the world and asked me for advice, I would have English Channels round every…
— Winston Churchill
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