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Academia is to knowledge what ???????ution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing

Academia is to knowledge what ???????ution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the nonsucker, not exactly the same thing
– Nassim Nicholas Taleb

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