Top 100 Quotes About Becoming A Person

#1. I was never really a girl, or a woman, or a human being to Raven, Case. Even though he did awful things for me. I was a symbol, an expiation, and when I insisted on becoming a person he did the only thing he could do to keep on serving the symbol and not have to deal with a flesh-and-blood woman.

Glen Cook

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#2. What I am, at any given moment in the process of my becoming a person, will be determined by my relationships with those who love me or refuse to love me, with those whom I love or refuse to love.

Harry Stack Sullivan

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#3. An inner knowing, along with a burning desire, is the prerequisite for becoming a person capable of manifesting his or her heart's desires.

Wayne Dyer

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#4. It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing
especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.

Billie Jean King

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#5. There is no fixed, true and real person inside of you or me, precisely because being a person necessarily implies becoming a person, being in process.

John Powell

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#6. Leaders attract followers, while followers attract leftovers. Become a leader worth joining by becoming a person of

Dylan Cruise

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#7. To be a human being means to be lonely.To go on becoming a person means exploring new modes of resting in our loneliness.

Robert Hobson

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#8. Choosing to forgo the small rewards of society now will lead to the monumental rewards of becoming a person of value later.

Chris Matakas

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#9. So, rather than becoming multicultural, rather than becoming a person of several languages, rather than becoming confident in your knowledge of the world, you become just the opposite. You end up in college having to apologize for the fact that you no longer speak your native language.

Richard Rodriguez

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#10. Try becoming a person people want to be with rather than conforming yourself to the false identity of what you conceive their ideal to be.

An Na

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#11. If becoming a person of faith were more like, say, receiving a personality transplant, life would be easier.

Nadia Bolz-Weber

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#12. Becoming a person, of course, means finding your people, and your place among them

Jeffrey Eugenides

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#13. There is so much inherent drama in the matter of change. Disappointment in yourself and others, coping with the fact that life is essentially shipwreck, becoming a person you yourself could not imagine yourself to be, for good and for bad, and then ultimately there is the basic matter of loss.

Jane Hamilton

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#14. The first step in becoming a truly happy person is to make peace with your life. The second step will be to spread that peace into your environment.

Gracia Hunter

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#15. It's not about finding great people, it's about becoming a great person

Mark Yarnell

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#16. It's not about becoming a movie star. It's about the down-in-the-dirt art of inhabiting the person you aspire to be while carrying on your shoulders the uncertain and hungry man you know you are.

Cheryl Strayed

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#17. A salary does not make a person rich, but only gives him the opportunity to take care of his
needs. It is not a means of becoming wealthy. It is a means of fulfilling our potential.

Sunday Adelaja

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#18. A person has to remember that the road to success is always under construction. You have to get that through your head. That it is not easy becoming successful.

Steve Harvey

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#19. To understand what a person is, it is necessary always to refer to what he may be in the future, for every state of the person is pointed in the direction of future possibilities.

Gordon W. Allport

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#20. I am basically a shy person, so performing sometimes helps me focus - having all those people concentrate their attention on you. I don't see it so much as becoming another person onstage; it's more exploring a different side of your personality.

Kim Gordon

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#21. A doctor who keeps a person from becoming ill deserves more merit than one who cures him.

Vincent De Paul

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#22. While it is good to apologize and ask forgiveness from God, it's just as important (perhaps more so) to extend it towards the person you wronged. Becoming a better person or trying to make amends with the universe only works when you start with the one you owe it to.

Donna Lynn Hope

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#23. While you're worrying about becoming famous, there is someone out there putting in work and not wasting a second of their time. Which person will you be?

Torron-Lee Dewar

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#24. If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

Angelina Jolie

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#25. The most important thing for me to succeed in is day by day becoming a better and more prepared person.

Luis Gerardo Mendez

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#26. Becoming a dad means you get transformed from the healthy, vibrant, intelligent, youthful person pictured in your wedding photo into a twitching, bewildered, sleep-deprived, Play-Dough-smeared creature who looks like the guy in the photo on the post office wall, only less chipper.

David Meurer

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#27. Every person who invests in well-selected real estate in a growing section of a prosperous community adopts the surest and safest method of becoming independent, for real estate is the basis of wealth.

Theodore Roosevelt

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#28. We can make these three dynamic words - "reverence for life" - a part of our lives by becoming aware that God is the source of all life and that we are one with life. "The good person," said Schweitzer, "is the friend of all living things."

Wilferd Peterson

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#29. She left me then, surrounded by my extravagantly simple finery and I sat for a long time, uncomfortable both with the person I had been and the person I was finally becoming. Caught between the two of them, I felt rather lonely, as one often does with a new acquaintance.

Deanna Raybourn

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#30. I think it's doubly important, now that we see so many people failing. When the norm is an anti-hero, there's a serious loss when you cannot portray a decent person on screen without it becoming slightly sentimental or feeling like it's unrealistic.

Brendan Gleeson

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#31. A person whose financial requirements are modest and whose curiosity, skepticism and indifference to reputation are outsized is a person at risk of becoming a journalist.

Louis Menand

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#32. As soon as the love relationship does not lead me to me, as soon as I in a love relationship do not lead another person to himself, this love, even if it seems to be the most secure and ecstatic attachment I have ever experienced, is not true love. For real love is dedicated to continual becoming.

Leo Buscaglia

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#33. An architect is a person who builds homes or structures, stadiums even. A Supreme Architect is someone who actually built the universe. So, if I say I am the Supreme Architecture, I'm letting Allah speak. I'm becoming a vehicle.

RZA

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#34. If a person who constantly reads is labeled a bookworm, then I was quickly becoming what might be called a tapeworm.

David Sedaris

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#35. The most unfortunate thing that happens to a person who fears failure is that he limits himself by becoming afraid to try anything new.

Leo Buscaglia

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#36. If you attempt to build intimacy with a person before you've done the hard work of becoming a whole and healthy person, every relationship will be an attempt to complete the hole in your heart and the lack of what you don't have. That relationship will end in disaster.[1]

Chip Ingram

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#37. I've spent most of my life trying to wear a persona that didn't quite fit and when I started writing books, it was like finally becoming the right person.

Meg Rosoff

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#38. Treat a child as though he already is the person he's capable of becoming.

Haim Ginott

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#39. The last remnants of Deanna the child--the idealist, the sheltered elite--had been torn loose by tonight's tragedies, slain with the same bullet that had felled her would-be killer. She had no idea who the new person inhabiting this shell of her old self would become. The realization frightened her.

Leslie Ann Moore

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#40. Who we are to be is more important than what we are to do. It is the who that determines the what. If you can figure that one out, you will have come a long way to becoming a focused and content person.

Gregory Tyree

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#41. Disagreement is part of being a person who has choices. One of those choices is to respect others and engage in intelligent conversation about differences of opinion without becoming enemies, eventually allowing us to move forward to compromise.

Ben Carson

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#42. Becoming the type of person you want to become - someone who lives by a stronger standard, someone who believes in themselves, someone who can be counted on by the people that matter to them - is about the daily process you follow and not the ultimate product you achieve.

James Clear

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#43. Christ was one person, limited to ministry in only one place at a time. In order to minister as an omnipresent Spirit, Jesus relinquished His fleshly dimension with its limitations of time and place. He entered a higher realm of restoration and love by becoming an indwelling Spirit.

Earl Paulk

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#44. It is difficult, my dear Lucius, to escape becoming the person others believe one to be. A slave is twice enslaved, once by his chains and once again by the glances that fall upon him and say thou slave.

Thornton Wilder

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#45. When Mary arrived, I felt a mixture of emotions, including panic and overwhelming love. I felt a great sense of responsibility, not just towards my child but also towards her father. There have been many influences on my life, but that thing of finally becoming a family person was the greatest.

Diana Quick

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#46. According to Viktor Frankl, a person finds identity only to the extent that "he commits himself to something beyond himself, to a cause greater than himself."4 The meaning of our lives emerges in the surrender of ourselves to an adventure of becoming who we are not yet.

Brennan Manning

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#47. Only through freely chosen discipline can life be enjoyed, and still kept within the bounds of reason. If a person learns to control his instinctual desires, not because he has to, but because he wants to, he can enjoy himself without becoming addicted. A

Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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#48. Watching a person lose their dignity used to be uncomfortable, and now it's an expected part of the program that we're becoming comfortable with.

Lisa Kudrow

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#49. Maybe he is starting to understand. I don't really care, though. I do not want to be anyone's model for becoming a better person.

E.K. Johnston

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#50. Every person with whom you interact is a part of the person you are becoming. Not a single interaction with a single person is left out of the process of your becoming.

Esther Hicks

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#51. I feel myself becoming less a person than a place, inhabited, a foreign land.

Louise Erdrich

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#52. I got told so many times I needed a manager. For a long time I resisted, and I finally got one so I can pay my mortgage, and it helped me from becoming a homeless person.

Cat Power

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#53. Once in a while, God sends a good white person my way, even to this day. I think it's God's way of keeping me from becoming too mean. And when he sends a nice one to me, then I have to eat crow. And honey, crow is a tough old bird to eat, let me tell you.

Annie Elizabeth Delany

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#54. We get caught up in all the stress - 'Got to do this, is this the right thing for me to do?' - but what about the thing you want to do? That's what'll keep you young. It's empowering, not becoming a prisoner of some other person's idea of what you should be.

Matt Dillon

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#55. Slowing down your responses and becoming a better listeners aids you in becoming a more peaceful person

Richard Carlson

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#56. The minute you start making calculations about what people will think of you as a person based on your work as an actor, you're on the road to becoming a bad one.

Rob Lowe

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#57. I really felt the growth of myself as a human being, as a person [becoming a mother].

Jennifer Lopez

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#58. You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!

Hideaki Sorachi

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#59. I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.

Bruce Coville

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#60. He'd started caring more about becoming the kind of person who could make a change than he cared about the change itself.

Courtney Milan

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#61. Quit trying to become a better parent and decided to try becoming a better person.

Glennon Doyle Melton

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#62. What is passion? Passion is surely the becoming of a person.

John Boorman

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#63. It was finally becoming clear to her that love wasn't about finding someone perfect to marry. Love was about seeing through to the truth of a person, and accepting all their shades of light and dark. Love was an ability.

Lisa Kleypas

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#64. I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming thoughtful, of ever being taken seriously.

Anne Lamott

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#65. The worst part about prostitution is that you're obliged not to sell sex only, but your humanity. That's the worst part of it: that what you're selling is your human dignity. Not really so much in bed, but in accepting the agreement - in becoming a bought person.

Kate Millett

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#66. An infant no more than six weeks old
a person in the still floppy, stunned by visual stimuli, sucking, arm and foot waving, grunting, grimacing phase of life. How I had loved that stage in my own Daisy's path of becoming. [p.46]

Siri Hustvedt

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#67. An arrogant person considers himself perfect. This is the chief harm of arrogance. It interferes with a person's main task in life - becoming a better person.

Leo Tolstoy

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#68. Maybe there was a reason for me waking up and becoming a better person. Maybe it was because all along I was meant to find you and the person I was before wasn't worthy of having you. But I swear, now that I have you, I'm never going to let you go.

Amanda Stone

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#69. When we think of death, we often imagine it as happening in degrees: We think of a sick person becoming less and less alive until finally they are gone.

John Green

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#70. Becoming internally empowered shifts a person's center of gravity from external to internal- a mark of spiritual passage.

Caroline Myss

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#71. The first step to becoming a more peaceful person is to have the humility to admit that, in most cases, you're creating your own emergencies. Life will usually go on if things don't go according to plan. It's helpful to keep reminding yourself and repeating the sentence, "Life isn't an emergency".

Richard Carlson

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#72. Whenever you find yourself becoming angry or jealous, try to see good quality in the person. You will suddenly be thinking a higher thought and that will elevate you.

Frederick Lenz

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#73. I can't imagine a person becoming a success who doesn't give this game of life everything he's got.

Walter Cronkite

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#74. By learning more, by doing more, by becoming more, and by creating a common vision, a leader is a person who can inspire others to change for the better.

Debasish Mridha

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#75. In general, Europeans need to get a wider perspective on the problem of Islamism. Even if the Israel-Palestine question were solved - and I think and hope that one day soon it will be - this wouldn't stop one person from becoming a terrorist.

Bernard-Henri Levy

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#76. I've watched you these six months becoming a whole different person, someone who is only just beginning to see her possibilities. You have no idea how happy that has made me.

Jojo Moyes

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#77. Becoming a different person might be hard, but taking on a different name is a cinch.

Haruki Murakami

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#78. If you want to be known for whom you are as a person, then your responsibility it to make your qualities more visible. I believe if you don't you are becoming a victim.

Marla Runyan

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#79. Marriage is about becoming a team. You're going to spend the rest of your life learning about each other, and every now and then, things blow up. But the beauty of marriage is that if you picked the right person and you both love each other, you'll always figure out a way to get through it

Nicholas Sparks

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#80. Becoming an influential personality at work is much more important than becoming a hardworking person!

Abhishek Ratna

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#81. I didn't just magically end up becoming the person that I am today. I also dealt with different kinds of pain and hardships, and I chose to fight and win over these battles instead of letting it defeat me and become just a mere victim.

Kcat Yarza

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#82. Any atrocity that's committed against one person affects us all, and we are becoming more of one society, of a global society, so something that happens in the Middle East or something that happens in Africa, something that happens in Asia, affects all of us.

Don Lemon

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#83. By travelling to all the corners of the globe it allows me to further define the ever changing world we live in, which in turn helps me to redefine myself, therefore it is an important process towards becoming a complete person.

Andrew James Pritchard

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#84. By walking in his spiritual life, the Christian will experience growing in his faith, becoming a holy person, understanding more the Word of God, being able to love one's neighbour more, to do acts of mercy and experience more the light of God.

George Calleja

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#85. I've never been a suicidal person. I've never been someone to want to see the world come to an end. But I would like to see something different than what I'm seeing. Because it is becoming a monotonous - as if you're watching re-runs of things you've already seen.

Marilyn Manson

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#86. Healing is a different type of pain. It's the pain of becoming aware of the power of one's strength and weakness, of one's capacity to love or do damage to oneself and to others, and of how the most challenging person to control in life is ultimately yourself.

Caroline Myss

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#87. It is less about becoming a better person, and more of being better, as a person.

J.R. Rim

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#88. Guilt can interfere with our desires to move forward, to heal properly and to become a person who has the mental health and means of proper recompense.

Bryant McGill

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#89. As a person who came from a small town and had dreams of becoming an actor, I know what it's like to have no support system for what it is that you want to do. A lot of people think you don't have a chance.

Anika Noni Rose

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#90. There is a special way that you can accelerate your progress toward becoming the highly productive, effective, efficient person that you want to be.

Brian Tracy

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#91. Edmund, who was becoming a nastier person every minute, thought that he had scored a great success, and went on at once to say, 'There she goes again. What's the matter with her?

C.S. Lewis

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#92. Love transgresses the possibility of the rights of the individual becoming only selfish indulgence. For love, we will accept a person's faults and pain, and take them on as our own.

Rod Dubey

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#93. If you're honest with yourself, that's the first step in maturing and becoming a better person. If you suppress your shortcomings and fears, they will follow you until the day you die. It was difficult, but I finally admitted to myself that I made mistakes.

Keith Millard

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#94. The greatest reward in becoming a millionaire is not the amount of money that you earn. It is the kind of person that you have to become to become a millionaire in the first place.

Jim Rohn

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#95. A very sensitive person in this stupid world is bound to become mad ... Only meditation can save him from becoming mad.

Rajneesh

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#96. Becoming yourself is really hard and confusing, and it's a process. It's often not cool to be the person who puts themselves out there.

Emma Watson

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#97. The less a person knows about the workings of the social institutions in his society, the more he must trust those who wield power in it; and the more he trusts those who wield such power, the more vulnerable he makes himself to becoming their victim.

Thomas Szasz

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#98. When you see a good person, think of becoming like her/him. When you see someone not so good, reflect on your own weak points.

Confucius

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#99. I had no intention of becoming an academic. How could a person who was having trouble reading become an academic?

Frances Fox Piven

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#100. I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.

Nancy Pearl

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