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While she maintained some loyalty to your family during her lifetime, it would be folly to expect the same level of due diligence from her widower.

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Where one analyst sees a legitimate AI-fueled rally, another sees familiar folly.

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Gold is meant to be exempt, the ultimate safe asset to protect from the follies of the government and banks.

“One Battle After Another” is entrenched in the folly that comes with our ultramodern push-and-pull between two extremist modes of thinking.

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Of course, facts are important, but they don’t necessarily reveal anything; it is the biographer’s folly to ascribe deeper meaning to them, to extrapolate truth from a disparate series of events.

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