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I did drop out of school. ↗

— Don Was

#drop #i #out #school

Years ago I learned to be totally responsible for Dionne Warwick. I will not wait for opportunities. I will create them. ↗

— Dionne Warwick

#create #i #learned #opportunities #responsible

I cannot help feeling I would have been happier with a husband and chidren of my own. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#cannot #feeling #happier #help #husband

Honesty is never seen sitting astride the fence. ↗

— Lemuel K. Washburn

#fence #honesty #honesty is #never #seen

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. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#life #measured #much #obstacles #overcome

I have learned 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 had to overcome while trying to succeed. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#i #i have learned #learned #life #measured

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#down #exerting #other #pulling #pushing

There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession. ↗

— Daniel Webster

#refuge #suicide

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. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#any #because #belongs #done #efforts

We do not want the men of another color for our brothers-in-law, but we do want them for our brothers. ↗

— Booker T. Washington

#brothers #color #men #our #them