“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”

— Edmund Hillary

Though widely attributed to Hillary on the internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.
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New Zealand mountaineer 1919–2008

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