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As soon as you learn to never give up, you have to learn the power and wisdom of unconditional surrender, and that one doesn't cancel out the other they just exist as contradictions. The wisdom of it comes as you get older.

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Kris Kristofferson
Age: 88
Born: 1936
Born: June 22
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