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I only buy a computer when it's two years old, after the glitches have been worked out.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
Businessperson
Poet
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Writer
Kingston
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Glitches
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Computer
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America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.
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I am absolutely convinced that my life was redeemed by poetry.
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Good ideas are like Nike sports shoes. They may facilitate success for an athlete who possesses them, but on their own they are nothing but an overpriced pair of sneakers. Sports shoes don't win races. Athletes do.
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