"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."

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"I have never regarded myself as this or that. I have been too busy being myself to bother about regarding myself."

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"Nothing hinders a thing from being natural so much as the straining ourselves to make it seem so."

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"It feels kinda weird being back in a high school cause I haven't been in a high school for about a year. So um, it's kinda interesting coming back, and y'know seeing the lockers, with all the signs, the handmade signs, so being in high school again is a little bit strange but in a good way."

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"Since it is seldom clear whether intellectual activity denotes a superior mode of being or a vital deficiency, opinion swings between considering intellect a privilege and seeing it as a handicap."

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"That good disposition which boasts of being most tender is often stifled by the least urging of self-interest."

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"Being a mum has made me a lot more responsible, it's not just me anymore. But it's also brought me the most joy ever!"

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"Retirement may be looked upon either as a prolonged holiday or as a rejection, a being thrown on to the scrap-heap."

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"I value my garden more for being full of blackbirds than of cherries, and very frankly give them fruit for their songs."

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"The desire to seem clever often keeps us from being so."

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"I remember being shocked when I came out from under the focusing cloth after a minute or two being submerged within that, at the startling green color of those ferns."

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"I'm such a video game fan that being able to do voices in video games is just fantastic."

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"There are two kinds of statistics, the kind you look up and the kind you make up."

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"Hemingway never grew out of adolescence. His scope and depth stayed shallow because he had no idea what women are for."

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"I still can't decide which is more fun - reading or writing."

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