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The bigger they come, the harder they fall

  1. The more powerful and successful people are, the more they suffer when they experience defeat and disaster.


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But sometimes the bigger they come, the harder they fall — and in its initial showings at the Venice and Telluride film festivals, the hotly anticipated “Bardo” has gotten off to a rather rough start.

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It’s a reminder that, the bigger they come, the harder they fall.

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The bigger they come, the harder they fall.

"The bigger they come, the harder they fall," he said.

Perhaps the managers at Tandy Corp., based in Fort Worth, Texas, should have heeded another aphorism: the bigger they come, the harder they fall.

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