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“A life is not important except in the impact it has on other lives.
— Jackie Robinson
Baseball player
I Never Had It Made (1972) by Robinson, as told to Alfred Duckett; excerpted in "Why 'I Never Had It Made': Jackie Robinson's Own Story," Newsday (November 5, 1972)
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