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Maya Angelou Quotes: To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.
         

To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.


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This page presents the quote "To be human is to be challenged to be more divine. Not even to try to meet such a challenge is the biggest defeat imaginable.". Author of this quote is Maya Angelou. This quote is about challenges, trying, defeat, divine,.