Most of the things I've got right over the years, I got right because I'd got them wrong first.
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Where these words come from
- 95% sureThese words were traced back to where they first appeared. That source is listed below.
- Harvey Awards speech, author’s posted text, June 27, 2004; Complete sentence in author’s own posted speech. He notes that the delivered ending differed because the final page did not print; this record cites the posted text, not a verbatim recording.
- Harvey Awards speech, author’s posted text, June 27, 2004
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