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“I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.”

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source: Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (New York: Grove Press, 1985), 169.

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“In this age of information overload and abundance, those who get ahead will be the folks who figure out what to leave out, so they can concentrate on what’s important to them. Devoting yourself to something means shutting out other things. What makes you interesting isn’t just what you’ve experienced, but also what you haven’t experienced.”

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source: “How to Steal Like an Artist (and 9 Other Things Nobody Told Me),” Austin Kleon’s blog, March 30, 2011.

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“It’s our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”

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source: Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (New York: Scholastic, 1999), 333.

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