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Just because you've been successful and just because you've disrupted an environment, doesn't mean you're a role model or that you actually have anything to teach anybody. There's an awful lot of luck and accident in the world, and maybe you were just on the receiving end of that.

Michael Lewis

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Michael Lewis
Age: 63
Born: 1960
Born: October 15
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