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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

- Stanley Kubrick
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What do you take me for? A fourteen karat sucker?

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If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.

If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered.