The future is not something we enter. The future is something we create.- Leonard I. Sweet

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It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.- Andre Gide

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Life does not have to be perfect to be wonderful.- Annette Funicello

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Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.- Soren Kierkegaard

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Be yourself; everyone else is already taken. ― Oscar Wilde

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Religion is the opium of the masses.

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Don't listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.

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Arms discourage and keep the invader and plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property... Horrid mischief would ensue were the law-abiding deprived of the use of them.

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Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.- Henry David Thoreau

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I’m intimidated by the fear of being average.

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