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“You may be the first to do many things, but make sure you are not the last.”
Source: Her mother's advice, as Kamala Harris recounted it on 8 March 2020
Context Advice from her mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a cancer researcher who emigrated from India, which Harris often repeats when speaking about being a first.
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