Many people die trying, and I realised that I just had to give it a go.
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Today, companies are trying to create die-hard fans and followers by harnessing or engineering cultural movements.
The two men did not expect to be successful, but they wanted to die trying, investigators said.
You spend most of your life riding around trying not to die, getting abuse from members of the public.
It is less pleasant to die trying, than to survive healthily.
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My mother, tactfully, allowed the old woman to die without trying to see her again, but she was the only one to do so.
Herbig, 44, may present a disarming exterior, but beneath it lies a will of steel: A competitive tennis player and marathon runner, she wasn't about to watch her company die without trying to save it.
And that's exactly why HD DVD had to die: folks who should be trying to sell pricey video gear have had to waste their time walking buyers through HD DVD's format war with Sony's Blu-ray.
Immune cells called macrophages, trying to clear the mess, eventually choke and die, worsening the situation.
Memorial Sloan-Kettering's Studer spent years trying to transform adult stem cells into neurons to study why they die off prematurely in Parkinson's disease.
We may learn of other emergency workers who died racing into danger before the second plane struck the World Trade Center, desperately trying to save others, others who were already killed or about to die.
And, as generations of children can attest, parents are constantly trying to offer up healthy snacks such as bananas, raisins, oranges and pretzels, but to the die-hard candy user, this stuff is near beer.
The idea of trying to create a zero-harm culture has come out of a global recognition that some patients needlessly suffer or die in hospital because of errors.
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