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Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Beginning today, treat everyone you meet as if they were going to be dead by midnight. Extend to them all the care, kindness and understanding you can muster, and do it with no thought of any reward. Your life will never be the same again.

Approximate author period: c. 1996 AD · modern

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Og Mandino
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Approximate author period: c. 1996 AD · modern
Approximate author-period evidence for Og Mandino: documented death year 1996. Wikidata Q2500222, inspected 2026-10-08. Not a quotation composition date or independent verification of attribution. Source: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2500222 (accessed 2026-10-08).
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