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Martin Luther King, Jr. Quotes: If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.
         

If you can't be a sun, be a star. For it isn't by size that you win or fail. Be the best of whatever you are.


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