When you are gunning to be like other people, you are foolishly repeating their mistakes, and the worst of it all is that you can't even correct yours.
Michael Bassey Johnson
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People will walk in and walk out of your life, but the one whose footstep made a long lasting impression is the one you should never allow to walk out.
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To be of good quality, you have to excuse yourself from the presence of shallow and callow minded individuals.
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If you truly want to be respected by people you love, you must prove to them that you can survive without them.
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A person is wise if he listens to millions of advice and doesn't implement any of it.
Protect your good image from the eyes of negative viewers, who may look at your good appearance with an ugly fiendish eye, and ruin your positive qualities with their chemical infested tongues.
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I don't fancy colors of the face, I'm always attracted to colors of the brain.
A good traveller is one who knows how to travel with the mind.
There's no secret on how to attain a greater height, just keep climbing the ladder, don't look at the dreadful distance, lock up that negative thoughts today, and fulfil your dreams.
Make yourself your role model, because people who do not have qualities depend on the qualities of others to shape their own qualities.
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