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Larry Merchant
Larry Merchant

Larry Merchant, born on February 11, 1931, is a renowned sports journalist. His career began in the 1950s, and he achieved remarkable success in the field of sports journalism with his keen insights and unique writing style. more

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“There are but two roads that lead to an important goal and to the doing of great things: strength and perseverance. Strength is the lot of but a few privileged men; but austere perseverance, harsh and continuous, may be employed by the smallest of us and rarely fails of its purpose, for its silent power grows irresistibly greater with time.”

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Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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“At that point I ought to have gone away, but a strange sensation rose up in me, a sort of defiance of fate, a desire to challenge it, to put out my tongue at it. I laid down the largest stake allowe-four thousand gulden-and lost it. Then, getting hot, I pulled out all I had left, staked it on the same number, and lost again, after which I walked away from the table as though I were stunned. I could not even grasp what had happened to me.”

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Author:Fyodor Dostoevsky
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