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If you own up to your mistakes, you don't suffer as much. But that's a tough lesson to learn.

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Lee Iacocca
Age: 94 †
Born: 1924
Born: October 15
Died: 2019
Died: July 2
Autobiographer
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Allentown
Pennsylvania
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