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For every Holmes, there are entrepreneurs prone to stretching the truth who are celebrated instead of sitting in prison.

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He advises students and job seekers to focus on trends instead of fixating on raw numbers that are prone to revisions.

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Software is easier to scale and normally gets higher margins, but is also more prone to disruption than hardware, with lower barriers to entry by competitors.

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Protecting lives is no easy task in the nation’s most populated county, built on land prone to fires and straddling five active earthquake faults.

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Bellamy says he now often cringes looking back at the enraged footballer, banning his own team from throwing their arms up in disgust as he was so prone to do.

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