In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero's not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He's one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it. -Marilyn Manson

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Whatever it is you're seeking won't come in the form you're expecting.

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The only person you are destined to become is the person you decide to be. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Character, not circumstance, makes the person. ― Booker T. Washington

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We have all been thrown down so low that nobody thought we'd ever get up again; but we have been long enough trodden now; we will come up again, and now I am here. ― Sojourner Truth

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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.

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Keep your promises and be consistent. Be the kind of person others can trust. ― Roy T. Bennett

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Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have a habit of making excuses. ― George Washington Carver

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I'm generally a happy person -with the help of antidepressants, that is- so there is something to be said for surrounding myself with happy people. ― Rachel Machacek

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At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then they begin to hope it can be done, then they see it can be done—then it is done and all the world wonders why it was not done centuries ago. – Frances Hodgson Burnett

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