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Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.


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I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom when I'm dead. I cannot live on tomorrow's bread.

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I have discovered in life that there are ways of getting almost anywhere you want to go, if you really want to go.

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