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He explicitly demotes contemporary market success or technical proficiency relative to long-term historical world-changing force.
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Bestsellers
A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Okay. What you're thinking about is, okay, is this guy a bestseller? Is he technically proficient? That doesn't matter. No one cares about these..."
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A transcript-matched topic anchored by excerpts such as "...Okay. What you're thinking about is, okay, is this guy a bestseller? Is he technically proficient? That doesn't matter. No one cares about these..."
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"...Okay. What you're thinking about is, okay, is this guy a bestseller? Is he technically proficient? That doesn't matter. No one cares about these..."
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"...did publish a book it's called shoot dog and it's a bestseller but you know he's he's the richest he's one of the richest..."
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"...book, The Origin of Species, came out, it was an instant bestseller. And within 20 years, it became the mainstream understanding of how we..."
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"...book, Dreams of My Father. It was a New York Times bestseller. It basically launched his political career. He won because in 2008, the..."
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"...for Donald Trump. Like Barack Obama, he wrote a book, a bestseller called Hillbilly Elegy. And it's possible he becomes president of the United..."
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"...when you ban a book? You make it into a national bestseller, okay? So everyone was reading this book. So now Urban the Eighth..."
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