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"Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."

Benjamin E. Mays, American Educator

Man, Will, Woman, World

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"Every man and woman is born into the world to do something unique and something distinctive and if he or she does not do it, it will never be done."

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