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I Am Who I Am: The Power of Authenticity and The Top Regret of the Dying

I Am Who I Am: The Power of Authenticity and The Top Regret of the Dying

No cat can stop being a cat or pretend to be a horse.

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“I’m afraid I can't explain myself, sir. Because I am not myself, you see?” said Alice to the Caterpillar.

Shortly before this, Alice also reflected on how much she’d changed:

“But it's no use now,” thought poor Alice, “to pretend to be two people! Why, there’s hardly enough of me left to make one respectable person!”

The ability of human bei…

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