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The New Me: A Step-by-Step Guide to Personal Reinvention

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“I have learned that people with dual citizenship tend to become a problem in one of the countries they hold citizenship for. They misbehave, engage in mischievous antics, causing chaos and mayhem. They become destroyers and are divisive, causing division. They destroy or start fires, knowing they can run away if the country burns. They are always at the forefront of destroying a country, knowing they have a second home if the country they are in is destroyed. They are not patriotic but are always problematic and forever ungrateful.”

“I have a hunch that most of the money laundering or theft happens during state funerals or the creation of commissions or institutions. All these new laws and initiatives they introduced. All the things they do seem to be about stealing money and laundering funds. The intent is not to serve or help the public, but is to help themselves in government funds.”

“It's not the machines you need to fear. It's the people. Other people. The augmented men and women that will come afterwards. The children who use this technology you are creating will not care what it does to your norms and traditions. They will utilize this gift to its fullest potential and leave you begging in the dust. They will break your hearts, murder the natural world, and endanger their own souls. You will rue the day that you created us.”

“I'll tell you a secret about storytelling. Cinderella, Snow White, Sleeping Beauty... were not perfect in the beginning. It's only a happy ending on the last page, right? If the princess had everything from the beginning, there wouldn't be a story. Anyone who is imperfect or incomplete can become the main character in the story.”

“He felt like a character in a book. He thought of Mary Lennox as she discovered her secret garden. The blackberry bushes had become too thick to ride through and Percy dismounted, leaving Prince beneath the shade of a thick-trunked oak tree. He chose a strong whip of wood and started carving his way through the knotted vines. He was no longer a boy whose legs didn't always do as he wished; he was Sir Gawain on the lookout for the Green Knight, Lord Byron on his way to fight a duel, Beowulf leading an army upon Grendel. So keen was his focus on his swordplay that he didn't realize at first that he'd emerged from the forested area and was standing now on what must have been the top of a gravel driveway. Looming above him was not so much a house as a castle. Two enormous floors, with mammoth rectangular windows along each face and an elaborate stone balustrade of Corinthian columns running around all four sides of its flat roof. He thought at once of Pemberley, and half expected to see Mr. Darcy come striding through the big double doors, riding crop tucked beneath his arm as he jogged down the stone steps that widened in an elegant sweep as they reached the turning circle where he stood.”