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"Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.“

-Martin Luther King, Jr.

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Whatever your life's work is, do it well. A man should do his job so well that the living, the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.

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