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Some of us learn from other people’s mistakes and the rest of us have to be other people.

Zig Ziglar

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Zig Ziglar
Age: 86 †
Born: 1926
Born: November 6
Died: 2012
Died: November 28
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Motivational Speaker
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Coffee County
Alabama
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