“There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.”
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I let no man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
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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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If you want to lift yourself up, lift up someone else.
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