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"Last night I missed two free throws which would have won the game against the best team in the state. The farm town high school I play for is nicknamed the "Indians," and I'm probably the only actual Indian ever to play for a team with such a mascot.This morning I pick up the sports page and read the headline: INDIANS LOSE AGAIN.Go ahead and tell me none of this is supposed to hurt me very much."
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"The sooner you answer the question, "who am I" the more effective and successful life you will have."

"How can you stand apart from the herd? How can you start to be noticed so people will remember you? How can you be heard above the noise? "What is your personal branding that makes you special, unique, individual, and memorable?"

"You are a special and unique person, who has never lived before and who will never live in the future."

"I don't like to do what people expect. Why should I live up to their expectations instead of my own?"

"A Christian's mentality should be radically different from that of others in the community."

"You are created with your special features that you need to fulfill your destiny and why it is so important to accept them."

"And he had been very badly treated by a girl too. He had thought her a really civilised and adult personality, and then she had unexpectedly revealed that she was a mass of bourgeois prejudices and monogamic instincts."

"Your self-worth is totally different from your net-worth."
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"Sure, we thought the acresThat we tilled were sacred,But how could we have knownThat wheat can haunt like ghosts."


"Shit," he said. "I don't know why you're feeling sorry for yourself because you ain't had to fight a war. You're lucky. Shit, all you had was that damn Desert Storm. Should have called it Dessert Storm because it just made the fat cats get fatter. It was all sugar and whipped cream with a cherry on top. And besides that, you didn't even have to fight in it. All you lost during that was was sleep because you stayed up all night watching CNN."


"How much do we remember of what hurts us most? I've been thinking about pain, how each of us constructs our past to justify what we feel now. How each successive pain distorts the preceding."
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