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• One reason I never patent my products is that if I did it would take so much time, I would get nothing else done. But mainly I don't want my discoveries to benefit specific favored persons.

  George Washington Carver

  Discovery, Patents, Done

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• I went to the trash pile at Tuskegee Institute and started my laboratory with bottles, old fruit jars and any other thing I found I could use. ... [The early efforts were] worked out almost wholly on top of my flat topped writing desk and with teacups, glasses, bottles and reagents I made myself.

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  Writing, Science, Glasses

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• Nature is the greatest teacher and I learn from her best when others are asleep. In the still dark hours before sunrise God tells me of the plans I am to fulfill.

  George Washington Carver

  Teacher, Dark, Sunrise

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• I believe that the great Creator has put ores and oil on this Earth to give us a breathing spell ... as we exhaust them, we must be prepared to fall back on our farms, which are God's true storehouse. We can learn to synthesize materials for every human need from things that grow.

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  Nature, Believe, Fall

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• When I touch that flower, I am not merely touching that flower. I am touching infinity. That little flower existed long before there were human beings on this earth. It will continue to exist for thousands, yes, millions of years to come.

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  Flower, Years, Long

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• God gave them [the discoveries] to me; how can I sell them to someone else?

  George Washington Carver

  Discovery, Sells

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• The rapid growth of industry, the ever increasing population and the imperative need for a more varied, wholesome and nourishing foodstuff makes it all the more necessary to exhaust every means at our command to fill the empty dinner pail, enrich our soils, bring greater wealth and influence to our beautiful South land, which is synonymous to a healthy, happy and contented people.

  George Washington Carver

  Beautiful, Health, Mean

  "George Washington Carver: In His Own Words".

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• Look about you. Take hold of the things that are here. Let them talk to you. You learn to talk to them.

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  Learning, Looks, Environment

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• Our creator is the same and never changes despite the names given Him by people here and in all parts of the world. Even if we gave Him no name at all, He would still be there, within us, waiting to give us good on this earth.

  George Washington Carver

  God, Names, Never Giving Up

  "George Washington Carver: Scientist and Symbol". Book by Linda O. McMurray, 1982.

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• Learn to do common things uncommonly well; we must always keep in mind that anything that helps fill the dinner pail is valuable.

  George Washington Carver

  Food, Mind, Dinner

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• If you love something enough, it will reveal itself to you.

  George Washington Carver

  Enough, Ifs

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• More and more as we come closer and closer in touch with nature and its teachings are we able to see the Divine and are therefore fitted to interpret correctly the various languages spoken by all forms of nature about us.

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  Nature, Teaching, Divinity

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1987). “George Washington Carver in his own words”

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• You can't tear up everything just to get the dollar out of it without suffering as result. It is a travesty to burn our woods and thereby burn up the fertilizer nature has provided for us. We must enrich our soil every year instead of merely depleting it. It is fundamental that nature will drive away those who commit sin against it.

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  Years, Land, Suffering

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• My work is that of keeping every operation down (in size) so that the farmer and the man farthest down can get hold of it.

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  Work, Men, Size

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• A life that stood out as a gospel of self-forgetting service. He could have added fortune to fame but caring for neither he found happiness and honor in being helpful to the world. The centre of his world was the south where he was born in slavery some 79 years ago and where he did his work as a creative scientist.

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  Caring, Science, Self

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• There is no shortcut to achievement.

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  Persistence, Achievement, Shortcuts

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• I found that when I talk to the little flower or to the little peanut they will give up their secrets . . .

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  Giving Up, Flower, Secret

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• I wanted to know the name of every stone and flower and insect and bird and beast. I wanted to know where it got its color, where it got its life - but there was no one to tell me.

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  Life, Flower, Hypocrite

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• Nothing is more beautiful than the loveliness of the woods before sunrise. At no other time have I so sharp an understanding of what God means to do with me as in these hours of dawn.

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  Beautiful, Mean, Understanding

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• Anything will give up its secrets if you love it enough.

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  Love, Giving Up, Secret

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• Never a day passes but that I do myself the honor to commune with some of nature's varied forms.

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  Nature, Honor, Form

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• I think I'll sleep now.

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  Sleep, Thinking, Last Words

  George Washington Carver's last words, January 5, 1943.

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• He who puts a product upon the market as it demands, controls that market, regardless of color. It is simply a survival of the fittest.

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  Color, Survival, Demand

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• The beating on the tail of the snake may stop his progress a little, but the more vital parts must be struck before his poisonous death-dealing venom will be wiped out.

  George Washington Carver

  Death, Snakes, Progress

  George Washington Carver, Gary R. Kremer (1991). “George Washington Carver: In His Own Words”, p.165, University of Missouri Press

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• Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

  George Washington Carver

  Success, Fields, Fame

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