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"When there is a true or useful thing, there is sure to be a counterfeit."
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"Don't make changes to suit others, stay true to yourself."

"If there's something I'm not good at, it's usually because I just organically despise it. I can't help that. I'm fabulous at too many other things to waste my time faking it."

"Once you show someone your true colors it is impossible to paint over them."

"A human should realize himself and be responsible for himself if he wants to become the true person he is to be."

"Of all individuals, the hated, the shunned, and the peculiar are arguably most themselves. They wear no masks whatsoever in order to be accepted and liked; they do seem most guarded, but only by their own hands: as compared to the populace, they are naked."

"The closer you come to your authentic self, the simpler everything becomes. Listen to your intuition. It will tell you who you are."

"Your life "behind the scenes" must correspond to your life "on stage." What you preach must correspond to how you live."

"Be true to yourself to reveal your own unique beauties, feelings, and perceptions."
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"Humility cannot be taught by propaganda, though slavery can. Shouting for humility is a form of arrogance. One of my most abiding recollections is of a priest at a religious occasion once roaring, in the most threatening way imaginable: 'O our Lord God, we most humbly pray!'Real humility is not always the same as apparent humility. Remember that fighting against self-conceit is still fighting: and that it will tend to suppress it temporarily. It does not cure anything.Remember, too, that humility itself does not bring an automatic reward: it is a means to an end. It enables a person to operate in a certain manner."


"Words, they say, are the food of minds. But, like other foods, they can do little by themselves."
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