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Booker T. Washington Life

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.

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    Thomas Hobbes about Power

    The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long and no longer than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.

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      It is not wisdom but Authority that makes a law.

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      The seed of everything is in everything else.

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