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If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away.
Linus Pauling
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Linus Pauling
Age: 93 †
Born: 1901
Born: February 28
Died: 1994
Died: August 19
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