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You have to persuade yourself that you absolutely don't care what happens. If you don't care, you've won. I absolutely promise you, in every serious negotiation, the man or woman who doesn't care is going to win.

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Felix Dennis
Age: 67 †
Born: 1947
Born: May 27
Died: 2014
Died: June 22
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Kingston
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America is not the center of the universe.
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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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