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The only thing that counts, the only thing that matters is what we do with our lives from this moment on. - Unknown

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead. ~Mignon McLaughlin,

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence. - Frederick Douglass