"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
— Edmund Hillary

January 1, 1970

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Original Language: English

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Though widely attributed to Hillary on the Internet, this appears to have originated as a quote about him in a Rolex advertisement.