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"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."
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"The best jury of your peers that you'll ever find is well, you. Only you know what you're capable of and what you want to be."

"Perhaps, thought Nanny, little green Elphaba chose her own sex, and her own color, and to hell with her parents."

"There is truth, my boy. But the doctrine you desire, absolute, perfect dogma that alone provides wisdom, does not exist. Nor should you long for a perfect doctrine, my friend. Rather, you should long for the perfection of yourself. The deity is within you, not in ideas and books. Truth is lived, not taught."

"The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are."

"YOU are a signature to be dealt with and inspire, only when you move in to your authenticity."

"To underestimate oneself is as much an exaggeration of one's powers than the other."

"You are the most important person in your life. Your relationship with yourself defines your relationships with every other person you encounter. Celebrate yourself and celebrate all those around you."

"Do no look for that ideal person to be with, be that ideal person."

"I was born anew, owner of my own darkness."

"We can spend our lives letting the world tell us who we are. Sane or insane. Saints or sex addicts. Heroes or victims. Letting history tell us how good or bad we are. Letting our past decide our future. Or we can decide for ourselves. And maybe it's our job to invent something better."
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"Sir Walter, with his 61 years of life, although he never wrote a novel until he was over 40, had, fortunately for the world, a longer working career than most of his brethren."

"How often have I said to you that when you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth?"

"I consider that a man's brain originally is like a little empty attic, and you have to stock it with such furniture as you choose."

"Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones."

"I have frequently gained my first real insight into the character of parents by studying their children."

"London, that great cesspool into which all the loungers and idlers of the Empire are irresistibly drained."

"A man should keep his little brain attic stocked with all the furniture that he is likely to use, and the rest he can put away in the lumber-room of his library, where he can get it if he wants it."

"As a rule, said Holmes, the more bizarre a thing is the less mysterious it proves to be. It is your commonplace, featureless crimes which are really puzzling, just as a commonplace face is the most difficult to identify."
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