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All significant achievement comes from daring from experiment from the willingness to risk failure.

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Sydney J. Harris
Age: 69 †
Born: 1917
Born: September 14
Died: 1986
Died: December 8
Journalist
London
England
Sydney Harris
Significant
Achievement
Failure
Risk
Comes
Daring
Experiment
Willingness
Experiments

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Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in.
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All our efforts to attain immortality-by statesmanship, by conquest, by science or the arts-are equally vain in the long run, because the long run is longer than any of us can imagine.
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