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"Imagine that every man's mind is an island, surrounded by ocean. Each seems isolated, yet in reality all are linked by the bedrock from which they spring. If the ocean were to vanish, that would be the end of the islands. They would all be part of one continent, but the individuality would have gone."
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"I'd rather be interesting, original, & unique then follow the pack. Revel in who you truly are & be liberated!"
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"The world says fit in, the universe says stand out."
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"The objection to conforming to usages that have become dead to you is that it scatters your force. It loses your time and blurs the impression of your character."
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"You've probably missed out something really great but you haven't let that drive you insane but always remember to be yourself."
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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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"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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"As plants do not grow in the dark, never allow yourself to be in someone's shadow."
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"Yes, be different, but not for the vanities of being different."
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"Don't jump on the bandwagon just because everyone's doing so."
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"The most interesting people are the unusual. No one writes about or discusses the average, the ordinary, or the common; they write about and discuss the weird, the mad and the different, so if you are one, even though the opinions of others are of no importance, you are, in their eyes, significant enough to notice and remember."
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"The greatest tragedy in mankind's entire history may be the hijacking of morality by religion."
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"Perhaps, as some wit remarked, the best proof that there is Intelligent Life in Outer Space is the fact it hasn't come here. Well, it can't hide forever - one day we will overhear it."
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"I have a fantasy where Ted Turner is elected President but refuses because he doesn't want to give up power."
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"We have to abandon the idea that schooling is something restricted to youth. How can it be, in a world where half the things a man knows at 20 are no longer true at 40 - and half the things he knows at 40 hadn't been discovered when he was 20?"
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"I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her."
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"Sometimes I think we're alone in the universe, and sometimes I think we're not. In either case the idea is quite staggering."
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"The limits of the possible can only be defined by going beyond them into the impossible."
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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."
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"Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal."
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"The intelligent minority of this world will mark 1 January 2001 as the real beginning of the 21st century and the Third Millennium."
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