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You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.
Jay Maisel
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Jay Maisel
Age: 93
Born: 1931
Born: January 18
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