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People who get on at school are the ones who play by the rules, and no one's going to get far in later life playing by the system.

Max Hastings

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Max Hastings
Age: 79
Born: 1945
Born: December 28
Journalist
Military Historian
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Sir Max Hugh Macdonald Hastings
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