After all, it is hard to master both life and work equally well. So if you are bound to fake one of them, it had better be life.
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The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even, if you will, eccentricity. That is, something that cant be feigned, faked, imitated something even a seasoned impostor couldnt be happy with.
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