"The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.“


-Sammy Davis, Jr.

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The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

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