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If people ask me for the ingredients of success, I say one is talent, two is stubbornness or determination, and third is sheer luck. You have to have two out of the three. Any two will probably do.

Fred Saberhagen

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Fred Saberhagen
Age: 77 †
Born: 1930
Born: May 18
Died: 2007
Died: June 29
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