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Revealed insights should leave us stricken with the knowledge of how little we really know. It should never lead to an emotional arrogance based upon a false assumption that we somehow have all the answers - that we in fact have a corner on truth. For we do not.

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Mignon McLaughlin

A woman telling her true age is like a buyer confiding his final price to an Armenian rug dealer.

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