One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a…

Kay Redfield Jamison
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One is what one is, and the dishonesty of hiding behind a degree, or a title, or any manner and collection of words, is still exactly that: dishonest. ✨ Kay Redfield Jamison (2014). An Unquiet Mind: A memoir of moods and madness, p.11, Pan Macmillan
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