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Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes: When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.
         

When a man becomes a conformist, he is sacrificing the richness of independent thinking.


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To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.

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The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to be compassionate, to have it make some difference that you have lived and lived well.

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