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"Whosoever would be a man must be a non-conformist."
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"He got why Eleanor tried so hard to look different. Sort of. It was because she was different - because she wasn't afraid to be."
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"Dare to be different. The world is full of the ordinary."
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"Proudly buck the trend. Dare to be different."
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"When you find yourself wanting to turn your children, or pupils, or even your neighbours, into people exactly like yourself, remember that God probably never meant them to be that. You and they are different organs, intended to do different things."
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"Life is too short as we all know it to be. So why dare to spend it trying to live up to other people's worldly expectations of you?"
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"I saw myself as an outsider as a teen. I was home-schooled and got my G.E.D. when I was 16 I wasn't interested in high school at all and figured that college might be more entertaining."
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"In real life there is no such person as the average man. There are only particular men, women and children, each with his or her inborn idiosyncrasies of mind and body, and all trying (or becoming compelled) to squeeze their biological diversities into the uniformity of some cultural mold."
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"A person willing to fly in the face of reason, authority, and common sense must be a person of considerable self-assurance. Since he occurs only rarely, he must seem eccentric (in at least that respect) to the rest of us. A person eccentric in one respect is often eccentric in others."
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"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
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"She said my glasses made me look like a butch jock's locker room bitch."
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"We do not yet possess ourselves, and we know at the same time that we are much more."
Self-Control
"The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood."
Life
"We dress our garden, eat our dinners, discuss the household with our wives, and these things make no impression, are forgotten next week; but in the solitude to which every man is always returning, he has a sanity and revelations, which in his passage into new worlds he will carry with him. Never mind the ridicule, never mind the defeat: up again, old heart! - it seems to say, - there is victory yet for all justice; and the true romance which the world exists to realize, will be the transformation of genius into practical power."
Life
"When I first open my eyes upon the morning meadows and look out upon the beautiful world I thank God I am alive."
Gratitude
"You have first an instinct then an opinion then a knowledge as the plant has root bud and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
Trust
"Though I am weak yet God when prayed Cannot withhold his conquering aid."
Faith
"The shoemaker makes a good shoe because he makes nothing else."
Work
"The religion of one age is the literary entertainment of the next."
Philosophy
"What is success? To laugh often and much To win the respect of intelligent people and the affection of children To earn the appreciation of honest critics and endure the betrayal of false friends To appreciate beauty To find the best in others To leave the world a bit better whether by a healthy child a garden patch or a redeemed social condition To know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived That is to have succeeded."
Success
"Trust the instinct to the end though you can render no reason."
Faith
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