“There's ordinary people out there doing extraordinary things.”
Neal Shusterman (1962) American novelist
Source: UnWholly
“People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things.”
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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