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“An excuse can be set for the matter in which one feels prideful, when one has committed no action for the feeling of it. It would be the foulest of sensations to boast, especially within earshot of those aided, of the noble actions one has taken in the name of self-sacrifice.” Modern Romanticism For nobility,
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“Written in the ways of purism, is the idea that one blood is inferior, or lacking in quality, over another. To base politics around race, around gender, around creed, is to recede to the aristocracy mentality, though swapped. It is to say that impurity is purity. Perhaps it is that we are all the same,
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“Be proud for what you can accomplish. Be humble for what those accomplishments make you.” – Modern Romanticism
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“Proof must be within action. A person is always recognized for their deeds, for however noble and direct, and therefore not seen any longer of appearance. We love, we trust, the hero for their actions, when their appearances can be ignored. Though, should the appearance be the heroism, it is deception we believe to empower
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“The identity is the appearance. The action is the deed. Can we recognize the hero by their looks, or by their actions?” – Modern Romanticism
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“There is a statement: to be proud for what you can do, and to be humble for who you are. Though, what if this was reversed? What if people were proud for who they are, and they were humble about what they can do? Does this not feed into negligence for actions, and then also
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“To divide people in terms of identification, makes a person without a need to act. For to act, makes a person run towards the future. Egotism is connected to doubt, for the reason that egotism will be made for these identities, while to doubt means to doubt one’s ability to act. To act, never means
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“Why should I be a proud writer, when there are those who’d read my writing, recall a painful memory, and begin to weep to it? Why should I be a proud writer, when there are those who’d read my writing, feel rage for what I say, and thus become my enemy? Why should I be
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