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And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don__ just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn__ do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.
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And when you discover what you will be in your life, set out to do it as if God Almighty called you at this particular moment in history to do it. Don__ just set out to do a good job. Set out to do such a good job that the living, the dead or the unborn couldn__ do it any better. If it falls your lot to be a street sweeper, sweep streets like Michelangelo painted pictures, sweep streets like Beethoven composed music, sweep streets like Leontyne Price sings before the Metropolitan Opera. Sweep streets like Shakespeare wrote poetry. Sweep streets so well that all the hosts of heaven and earth will have to pause and say: Here lived a great street sweeper who swept his job well.

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