"As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died."

Identity, Passion, Loss, Change

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"As academia became my identity, my fascination with firefighters became buried and, seemingly, died."

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"The image of God is in every human."

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"I'm not abnegation, I'm not dauntless, I am Divergent."

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"Without accepting ourselves, we try to meet requirements of society and do everything to be accepted."

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"It's not the appearance that makes a man, it's the man that makes an appearance."

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"The light of God's love makes us unique personalities."

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"You are the author of your own destiny, write yourself into history books."

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"How many young men fear that there is a monster inside them? People are supposed to fear others, not themselves. People are supposed to aspire to become their fathers, not shudder at the thought."

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"Crying will achieve nothing. Only action will."

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"The job description, like most, used complicated words that made job-hopefuls hesitant to apply because it may be out of their range of capability."

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"There was a moment of silence as they imagined a future in which there existed an organisation that stole imagination for, undoubtedly, a sinister plan."

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"The only thing more interesting than the truth is fiction dressed up as the truth."

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"Maybe if you allowed me to blow off some steam, I wouldn't have been so frustrated when I had to find higher order fucking derivatives."

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"I took her word and didn't let my concern for my future ruin the present moment."

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"It's easy to give up at the beginning of something, but after gaining a bit of momentum it's not as tempting or easy to just give up."

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