If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain how he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be.

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With all this darkness round me I feel less alone.

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The day you die is just like any other, only shorter.

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You're born, you die. Everything in between is subject to interpretation.

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The sun shone, having no alternative, on the nothing new.

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Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them. - William Shakespeare

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I am an American; free born and free bred, where I acknowledge no man as my superior, except for his own worth, or as my inferior, except for his own demerit. ― Theodore Roosevelt

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Merely by being born intelligent, you right away find yourself in absolute exile.

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One of the deep secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others. ― Lewis Carroll

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I address you all tonight for who you truly are: wizards, mermaids, travelers, adventurers, and magicians. You are the true dreamers. ― Brian Selznick

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