Source: How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
“The best preparation for tomorrow is to do today's work superbly well.”
As quoted in Lifetime Speaker's Encyclopedia (1962) by Jacob Morton Braude, p. 575.
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Malcolm X
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Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Ward Cunningham
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