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To excel is to reach your own highest dream. But you must also help others, where and when you can, to reach theirs. Personal gain is empty if you do not feel you have positively touched another's life.
Barbara Walters
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Barbara Walters
Age: 95
Born: 1929
Born: September 25
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Massachusetts
Barbara Jill Walters
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