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Being different Quote by David M. Raup

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“Perhaps the only thing that saves science from invalid conventional wisdom that becomes effectively permanent is the presence of mavericks in every generation - people who keep challenging convention and thinking up new ideas for the sheer hell of it or from an innate contrariness.”

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You are no mistake. What makes you different is what makes you special, unique, original. You are a MASTERPIECE, a PIECE of the MASTER!

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Not everyone is capable of madness; and of those lucky enough to be capable, not many have the courage for it.

August Strindberg

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You all laugh because I am different. I laugh because you are all the same.

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Tomorrow can be better or worse but will never be same as today.

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