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The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated

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  1. The text of a cable sent by Mark Twain from London to the press in the United States after his obituary had been mistakenly published.


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"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated," flashed a screen above Jobs at a conference in September 2008.

From Washington Post Jan. 18, 2011

And after Bloomberg News accidentally published a version of his obituary, Jobs spoke in front of a giant slide that read, "The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated."

From Time Magazine Archive

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