Booker T. Washington: “I do not believe that anything, any element of your lives, is put into…”

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I do not believe that anything, any element of your lives, is put into them without a purpose.

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Booker T. Washington

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Washington expresses his belief that every element of life, including challenges, has a purpose.

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Booker T. Washington: “I do not believe that anything, any element of your lives, is put into them without a purpose.”