A Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you would not be known to do anything, never do it.
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He's never known anything like it! But then, he has never known anything to write home about, so this is nothing to write home about.
Hundreds would never have known want if they had not first known waste.
I had friends from Somalia and Eritrea and all these different counties, and I was getting to learn about people that I would have never known anything about.
If I could go back I wouldn't change anything. If I was popular I would have never left my bubble. I wouldn't have ever tired to do anything different. I would have never become happy.
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To have passed through life and never experienced solitude is to have never known oneself. To have never known oneself is to have never known anyone.
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He'd met other prodigies in mathematical competitions. In fact he'd been thoroughly trounced by competitors who probably spent literally all day practising maths problems and who'd never read a science-fiction book and who would burn out completely before puberty and never amount to anything in their future lives because they'd just practised known techniques instead of learning to think creatively.
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