If there's one thing I learned, it's that nobody is here forever. You have to live for the moment, each and every day... The here, the now.

Simone Elkeles

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Is it so bad then to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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