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"I had made it somewhere special, and I'd gotten there all on my own. Nobody had given it to me. Nobody had told me to do it. I'd climbed and climbed and climbed, and this was my reward. To watch over the world, and to be alone with myself. That, I found, was what I needed."
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"It was so screwed up, because the thing that made us the most powerless also gave us such power. We could make them turn away. We could bother them and challenge them and mess them up. You think people are afraid of two boys in love? To hell with that. What people are really afraid of is two boys screwing."

"If this continues, if this goes on, then when I die, your memories of me will be my greatest accomplishment. You memories will be my most lasting impressions."

"If you want to live within the definition of your own truth, you have to choose to go through the painful process of finding it."

"It's only in the finer points that it gets complicated and contentious, the inability to realize that no matter what our religion or gender or race or geographic background, we all have about 98 percent in common with each other. Yes, the differences between male and female are biological, but if you look at biology as a matter of percentage, there aren't a whole lot of things that are different. Race is different purely as a social construct, not as an inherent difference. And religion - whether you believe in God or Yahweh or Allah or something else, odds are that at heart you want the same things. For whatever reason, we like to focus on the 2 percent that's different, and most of the conflict in the world comes from that."

"The pink-haired boy is scared, so incredibly scared - only the thing you've most wished for can scare you in that way."

"Invoking the moral high ground somehow makes you lose it. Using a secret as a weapon makes you almost as bad as the transgressor."
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"What you conquer in your youth is your trophy in adulthood."

"Having a talent is not all that a matter, bearing noble and lasting fruits with your talent is the real matter."

"Then, without postponing anything, build a structure that will allow you to transform this vision into reality."

"Talents are seeds of greatness. With big dreams well dispensed in form of achievements, you can pick money from people's pockets and they will never get the guts to call you a thief."

"It is important that when we make a resolution, or establish a goal, that we take the ACTION necessary to accomplish that goal."

"Don't expect others to hand success to you. Create it - with heart, energy and enterprise - and you'll make it come true."

"With persistent focus and determined spirit, you can achieve the God-given goals."

"In our natural world, it is the strongest of the species that claim their space, seek out new territories, explore their surroundings, and learn how to survive and thrive. It is those same qualities that enable us to apply confidence and command to transcend the mediocre and achieve outstanding results."

"The self-actualization process for a man is a conscious choice of a life goal and the way to achieve it."

"I made my name. What does this mean? It means that a man has successfully graduated through the process of inner self-development."
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