The opportunity to earn a dollar in a factory just now is worth infinitely more than the opportunity to spend a dollar in an opera house.

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"If I have done anything in life worth attention, I feel sure that I inherited the disposition from my mother."

- Booker T. Washington

Love

"No race can prosper until it learns there is as much dignity in tilling a field as in writing a poem."

- Booker T. Washington

Belief

"If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else."

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

""If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.""

- Booker T. Washington

Compassion

""Those who are happiest are those who do the most for others.""

- Booker T. Washington

Happiness

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"The vision of a champion is bent over, drenched in sweat, at the point of exhaustion, when nobody else is looking."

- Mia Hamm

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"Champions aren’t made in the gyms. Champions are made from something they have deep inside them-a desire, a dream, a vision."

- Muhammad Ali

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"A bodybuilder is a sculptor who carries with him his own material."

- Serge Nubret

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"Big battles bring sweet victories."

- Unknown

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"Champions keep playing until they get it right."

- Billie Jean King

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