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To: pat mudge who wrote (30573)	2/18/1998 1:07:00 AM
From: SteveG	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31386

<..My first source thought it was nailed down and it obviously wasn't...> Amazing how that works, really... and how often that fallibility gets lost and swept away by proud determinism. Fwiw, I had a professor once advise me well before defending my dissertation: It's OK to be ignorant of some things since you're not gonna know it all... but be humble in that and just say you don't know And it's also OK to come across very self-assured, but you better REALLY know your stuff. But there is ONE sure guarantee of flunking your defense - in demonstrating that unforgivable combination of arrogance and ignorance. which is why MY bias is to always question, doubt, triple confirm and NEVER ASSume...