"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."

Alexander Graham Bell, Scottish Inventor

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"A man, as a general rule, owes very little to what he is born with - a man is what he makes of himself."

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"Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

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"Some boys feel they are like girls,They are gentle, and like their hair in curls."

Christina Engela, South African Author

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"Really I feel less keen about the Army every day. I think the Church would suit me better."

Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"Maybe I'd always been broken and dark inside. Maybe someone who've been born whole and good would have put down the ash dagger and embraced death rather than what lay before me."

Sarah J. Maas, American Novelist

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"I know where I come from, but what I want to know is, where am I going?"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"The confusion boys experience about their identity is heightened during adolescence. In many ways the fact that today's boy often has a wider range of emotional expression in early childhood, but if forced to suppress emotional awareness later on makes adolescence all the more stressful for boys. Tragically, were it not for the extreme violence that has erupted among teenage boys throughout our nation, the emotional life of boys would still be ignored. Although therapists tell us that mass media images of male violence and domination teach boys that violence is alluring and satisfying, when individual boys are violent, especially when they murder randomly, pundits tend to behave as though it were a mystery why boys are so violent."

bell hooks, American Critic

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"She saw clearly a boy and a man fighting for control of the same face."

Stephen King, American Author

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"Each of us has no peers, because each of us is unique in who we are and what we have experienced.Anyone who tells you otherwise has quite obviously not met any of their peers either!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer

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"She can't help it,' he said. 'She's got the soul of a poet and the emotional makeup of a junkyard dog."

Stephen King, American Author

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"As I think of myself, so I shall be."

Vironika Tugaleva, Ukrainian Author

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