If how much time you spend at a place determines your status, then roaches are the dominant species on the planet.
What other people think of you does not matter, because if you let other people decide what you are, then you must not have any confidence in yourself.
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"Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We of this Congress and this administration will be remembered in spite of ourselves." Abraham Lincoln
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