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Hey students, Kelty here. I'm going to read to you one of my favorite passages. It's by E.E. Cummings, and it's about the courage to be yourself.

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Almost anybody can learn to think or believe or know, but not a single human being can be taught to be. Why?

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because whenever you think or you believe or you know you are a lot of other people

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but the moment you are being you're nobody but yourself to be nobody but yourself in a world

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which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle

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which any human being can fight and never stop fighting does this sound dismal it isn't it's the

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most wonderful life on earth.