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Good morning everyone.

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First of all, I would like to thank you 
all for being here with us today,

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celebrating Algerian women,

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celebrating the Algerian youth,

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celebrating the Algerian
society as a whole.

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Which actually women are still a very 
effective part and partial of it.

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Well, today my talk is

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It could be actually universal.

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It's for everyone in this planet,

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and but I will actually make it 
specific to the Algerian youth,

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and also more specific to 
the Algerian women as well.

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Well, you can actually like
still consider with that (Laughter).

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or with me, no problem.

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But let me ask this question.

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First of all, this way,

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Do I look cool?

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(Laughter)

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Okay.

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Now , actually we are at the end of 
the period of exams and all of that.

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Let's ask the question

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of who had the opportunity
to watch a movie last week?

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Okay, okay.

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So, who was luckier and had
the opportunity to go to the cinema

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to watch a movie?

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Oh my god! Seems like you have 
some workaholic people in here.

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No one watches movies (Laughter).

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Okay, so seeing as actually some 
people are not really into movies,

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today we are going to talk about something
which is really important,

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and it's actually this concept originated 
from movies and cinemas and all of that.

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It's called the persistence of vision.

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Persistence of vision will 
go to take you today

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and project it on actually 
the level of life,

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not only in the cinemas and the seat 
of cinemas and seat of movies,

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but actually let's see how 
persistence of vision

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can actually take us to a whole new level.

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So, since this concept comes from 
the cinema and the movie,

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let's see what is it at the first place?

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So, people say, or let's say 
experts actually,

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experts defined to be the after image

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that our eyes keep after 
just seeing one frame,

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and then the having that this fact that
actually you will have an afterimage,

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it will afterimage another 
afterimage, another afterimage,

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and this is going to be perceived 
as the motion

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or what we have at the end 
of the day, movies.

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So, we know that actually our eyes

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keeps this afterimage for 
one over sixteen second,

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However, in fact, if you come 
to actual reality,

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our brains are more capable of actually 
keeping a vision for a whole life,

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and not only for one over 16 second,

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but for whole life.

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How is that you may be wondering?

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Well, coming from "Ouargla",

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where actually, we have a lot
of these palms and all of that,

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my father used to take us
every single weekend to our oasis

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and we used to help him actually 
around with crop and all of that,

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and collecting the dates and all of that,

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I should have brought some of
Deglet Nour, I know (Laughter).

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And one day, I remember I was like 
12 years old or something,

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and I told my dad,

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"Dad, I don't want to just like 
collect the dates,

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you know the ones actually on the ground.

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I want to get up there and get
the dates from the palm date".

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And he was like:
"Okay, why not? Let's go".

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I owe him a lot for this, he didn't say,
"You are a woman, you can't do that."

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He said : "Okay, Chada just like you did 
your bicycle the very first time,

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you remember how actually 
like you ran your bicycle?

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Put one feet here, put the other there, 
and keep your head up,

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Just see the date palm you want to get,

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and don't look anywhere else.

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You may see around if there is 
a thorn or something,

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if there is actually thorn that 
you want to keep away,

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but keep your vision fixed 
on that date, over there.

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I did so, and yes in half a day I learned 
how actually to get the dates,

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not just from the ground, but from 
the date palm over there.

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How is that ?

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By actually having my vision 
fixed in there.

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Well, this actually one example,

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and we all know Jim Carrey, 
who is the very famous actor

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or maybe since you don't want 
to watch movies,

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I don't know if you know him 
or not (Laughter).

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Do you?

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So, we know that actually the famous 
Jim Carrey, one day,

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and before he became actually 
this famous actor,

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One day what did he do?

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He just wrote a check to himslef,
dated it five days later,

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five years later, sorry.

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and then, he wrote the amount of money
he wants to have five years from now,

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What happened at the end?

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Five years later,
he surpassed that amount.

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You see how actually it's really 
fundamental and imperative

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to have something at the end of your road,

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something that shows you 
what path to take.

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Something that actually can tell you: 
"Yes, you are going the right way,

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or no, you are not going".

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So, we may persist in our vision,

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we may have the vision clear 
and all of that,

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But how do we really achieve it?

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that's way I cal it, the cat way,

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Anyone here likes cats?

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(Laughter)

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Oh my god, you are not fans
for anything? Come on guys.

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So the CAT way is something, just 
three letters as you see "CAT".

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"C" the first is celebrating 
your achievements.

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You remember how my father told me.

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"Chada just the same way
you did your bicycle,

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you can do this is well".

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So, the first step and to actually 
getting that vision really fulfilled,

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is to celebrate your achievements,

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at another actually you did great,

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and you just like the same way you did 
that before, you can do it again as well,

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This is "C".

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"A" is acknowledging your weaknesses.

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Acknowledging your weaknesses 
because that's the only way

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that's actually you can make sure, 
you're overcoming them,

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and you're aware and conscious 
of what you did before,

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and you can do it later on.

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Again, when we actually were actually 
trying to have the thorns before, away,

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when he told me just like, you know,

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"Sometimes you may look behind,
if there's a thorn in the way,

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that was a part of acknowledging
the weaknesses".

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And the last part is "T", which is 
taking a step forward.

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The most important thing in your vision.

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If you have your vision fixed 
at the end of the road,

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yet you are staying here, where I am,

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just like Nassim said : "Stay in 
this red carpet".

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and you aren't doing anything,

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will we achieve actually something?

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Never, we won't.

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Unless you take a step forward, 
that vision will not be fulfilled.

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And then taking step forward, 
it might smell something.

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Thank you, whoever brought that.

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Actually, this remembers me of something,
which is taking a step forward.

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just few days ago, when I was in Cairo,

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I have met Omar Samra,

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I don't know if some of you who 
are familiar with him or not.

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But he is one of the very few Arab 
and Egyptians

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who actually were able to climb 
the summit, Everest.

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And believe it or not, he was asthmatic,

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Oh yes, he is asthmatic when 
he was 16 years old,

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He dreamed that he want to get 
into Everest summit

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and he made it a challenge for himself

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He trained and trained and trained hard,

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Until actually, he started
with just like hiking,

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He started with the very low mountains,

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and then after all he is now coming back
from actually North Pole and South Pole,

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after finishing the long journey 
of Everest summit,

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and that's a person who had an asthma.

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Again , actually taking an action, 


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and celebrating achievements,

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and acknowledging our weaknesses, 
while on the middle of the road,

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Persisting in our vision this remind us,

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that a vision after a vision, 
after a vision,

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will give us the motion of our life.

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Just like the same way we have it 
in the movies and videos,

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while experts in movies 
tell us that actually

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the persistence of vision is a theory 
to apply with movies,

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we tell them that we can 
apply it in life as well,

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We can apply it in life the way that
actually we have a vision after vision.

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We achieve it and we actually 
have that motion going on,

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Yes, we can achieve it.

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Last thing I remember also
and actually have it related to this,

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is when I was in the third year 
of my high school.

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While having the baccalaureate
exam at the end -

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by the way we wish all the luck to all 
our baccalaureate candidates -

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I worked really hard, really really hard,

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and then, I had actually just wanted 
to get that score of 18,

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no matter what, and I was actually 
waking up early and all of that,

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and even I used to dream with it,

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I used to dream that actually,
I'm taking that score of 18.

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At the end of the day, I didn't get 18.

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So what? Do we just actually say that 
yes we're persistent within anything?

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Yet actually we didn't reach what 
we want and then we go back?

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No, it's not the end.

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That's why from the very beginning,
I said the persistence of vision

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are not the persistence of goals,
because goals may be flexible.

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We can actually get from a goal 
to another, but the vision is set.

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I had the vision of being a person who is 
actually impactful in the local society

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and has an impact and I think 
that actually I'm there,

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with that goal or with another.

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But at the end of the day, all what we 
want to say is the vision is there

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and the vision is all what clear 
clarifies the path to you.

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Set your vision right.

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Set your vision right and persist on it,

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Not only one over sixteenth of a second, 
but for an entire life.

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Just like our Excellency,
our ambassador said.

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She said, "Be the champion".

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I will say "Set your vision and be
the champion woman".

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(Applause).