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“Stop spending your time; start investing your time.”
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“I discovered very early that it wasn't quite enough for me to imitate people.”
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“I know right a way there's a person that's very insecure; that he's trying to out do me. And, ah, like I was saying before, if you give one-hundred percent of your best, and you may have fault, but there is nothing you can do, because you gave one-hundred percent.”
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“Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.”
Source : Song: At Seventeen, Album: Between the Lines, 1975
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“Most people don’t really want to think independently or make decisions; they’re herd animals with herd instincts to keep to the middle of the group where it’s safest, don’t stand out too much, don’t move too far away from convention, etc. They want to be led and dictated to. But they’re stubborn, mulish animals and they like to think they’re independent and free.”
Source : "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.
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“Lots of times you can feel as an exile in a country that you were born in.”
Source : Interview with Robert Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. February 5, 2004. 
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“Yet when we achieved, and the new world dawned, the old men came out again and took our victory to remake it in the likeness of the former world they knew. Youth could win, but had not learned to keep: and was pitiably weak against age. We stammered that we had worked for a new heaven and a new earth, and they thanked us kindly and made their peace.”
Source : T. E. Lawrence (2015). “The Collected Works of Lawrence of Arabia (Unabridged): Seven Pillars of Wisdom + The Mint + The Evolution of a Revolt + Complete Letters (Including Translations of The Odyssey and The Forest Giant)”, p.11, e-artnow
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“In one way, I suppose, I have been 'in denial' for some time, knowingly burning the candle at both ends and finding that it often gives a lovely light.”
