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All of us are born, and all of us are going to die. And the point is to do something worthwhile in between. That's all there is; there's just—You're already born; ain't nothing you can do about that. You're going to die, you know you are. You got a little bit of time. You got some dragons to slay? Pick the ones you want to slay. Make it worthwhile. Make it worthwhile. Somebody might ask you one of these days, what did you do? What you gonna tell them—you bought a car? [Audience laughs] You have to do something! If you have to do something you might as well do the best thing. No point in fiddling around with third-rate life. Do the best! You're not going to win it; so what? So what? It's not about winning.

Toni Morrison, A Humanist View
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