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Originally asked
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Verbatim recurring item in The Guardian Q&A; two fully readable publisher-hosted respondent pages establish institutional recurrence.
You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.
That there are more important things than being right.
The Guardian, The Q&A, The Guardian, 8 July 2023 source ↗
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Never ever think that things are going to turn out all right.
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