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Great work is usually done far younger than its fame suggests: people were grey-haired when they became famous, not when they did the work.

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    Patrick Collison by 5 Jul 2018

    People who did great things often did so at very surprisingly young ages. (They were grayhaired when they became famous... not when they did the work.)

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