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So, humility is the virtue that is opposed to pride, and is I'll suggest tomorrow in part generated by and sustained by the gift of fear talk about those things so you don't have any more confusion about the topic.

We will talk about pride here in a moment.

I want to begin with the story.

It's not the story I wanted to begin with.

I was just speaking to my wife Allison during the break.

And she said, look, don't tell that story.

It's not a good look.

Then she called me back just to say,

just don't tell that story.

Just make sure to assume.

I will tell, I'm going to tell slightly from Stan.

Slightly, an entirely different story.

So here goes briefly I was in the car on Tuesday with my six-year-old daughter Greta and I just picked her up from her soccer game and her soccer practice rather and she's six years old she's incredibly precocious and hilarious and unnerving and everything else in between we love her

this is what she says to me I need to make sure I get this right so she says

dad what do you think about riddles?

And I said, I like riddles.

She said, I have a couple of riddles.

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