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That success, however, may have bred the overconfidence behind Beijing’s latest sweeping controls on rare earths.

The main pluses humans have going for them are their overconfidence and yearning to manipulate anything and anyone they can for their own ends.

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When he’s in the safe space of right-wing media, Patel conducts himself with a brash overconfidence.

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After reviewing the recreation of the photo — the architects are still smiling this time, but their scrappy overconfidence feels eons away — Pildas wonders who the next generation will be, and how they will rise.

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The seat then contained the Labour stronghold of Harlow, but an energetic campaign, coupled with the overconfidence of the sitting Labour MP, saw Tebbit victorious in 1970.

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