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The superior person always has a choice facing him: is he to live in the way others live in order to please them or is he to live in the way his own standards call for? If he lets them pull him down he loses what has taken him many, many years to develop. Somewhere at some point he must take his stand, must plant his feet and refuse to budge any farther.

-- Notebooks Category 1: Overview of the Quest > Chapter 3 : Independent Path > # 27