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Today we lost Muhammad Ali, the ultimate hype man. He turned trash talking into an art form if he didn't, in fact, invent it. His public persona was brash, arrogant, and overflowing in confidence, but we loved him because he had the talent to back it up. Confidence or talent? It's a chicken/egg thing or perhaps butterfly/larvae in this case. Was he confident because he knew he had mad skills, or was it his confidence that drove him to work so hard? Regardless, he had to have

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