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" The clouds may drop down titles and estates, and wealth may seek us, but wisdom must be sought. "

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" The problem lies with us: we've become addicted to experts. We've become addicted to their certainty, their assuredness, their definitiveness, and in the process, we have ceded our responsibility, substituting our intellect and our intelligence for their supposed words of wisdom. "

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