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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be.

“Ah, you miserable creatures! You who think that you are so great! You who judge humanity to be so small! You who wish to reform everything! Why don't you reform yourselves? That task would be sufficient enough.” --— Frédéric Bastiat

“Often you don’t know whether you’re the hero of a romantic comedy or the villain on a Lifetime special until the restraining order arrives.” --— Tim Kreider

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Life is a flower of which love is the honey.

Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.

Time is the friend of the wonderful company, the enemy of the mediocre.

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The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different. --Aldous Huxley

“Virtue is not always amiable.” --— John Adams

"Taste is made up of a thousand distastes.” --— Paul Valéry