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Everyone has the ability to be independent and use their imaginations, and although society may cause that inherent desire to be pushed back, it is impossible to fully smother the instinct to have ideas.

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Ignorance is inherent in a population where societal pressures make conformity and dependence a priority. Every person has the capability to break out, think, and get creative, but society has made it so it doesn't seem necessary.

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Both express the conformity pressed upon by society and emphasize how difficult it is to maintain creative and self-reliant in the face of reality.

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And in the naked light, I saw
Ten thousand people, maybe more
People talking without speaking
People hearing without listening
People writing songs that voices never share
And no one dared
Disturb the sound of silence
"Fools", said I, "You do not know
Silence like a cancer grows
Hear my words that I might teach you
Take my arms that I might reach you"

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But my words, like silent raindrops fell
And echoed
In the wells of silence
And the people bowed and prayed
To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"
And whispered in the sound of silence

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Analysis of Emerson's Essay on self-reliance and it's impact on society in comparison with a song

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Analysis of Emerson's Essay on self-reliance and it's impact on society in comparison with a song

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"These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."

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"These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of every one of its members."

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"The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. Bravely let him speak the utmost syllable of his confession."

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"The eye was placed where one ray should fall, that it might testify of that particular ray. Bravely let him speak the utmost syllable of his confession."

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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion... The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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"There is a time in every man's education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide; that he must take himself for better, for worse, as his portion... The power which resides in him is new in nature, and none but he knows what that is which he can do, nor does he know until he has tried.

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Hello darkness, my old friend
I've come to talk with you again
Because a vision softly creeping
Left its seeds while I was sleeping
And the vision that was planted in my brain
Still remains
Within the sound of silence

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"So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

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"So use all that is called Fortune. Most men gamble with her, and gain all, and lose all, as her wheel rolls. But do thou leave as unlawful these winnings, and deal with Cause and Effect, the chancellors of God. In the Will work and acquire, and thou hast chained the wheel of Chance, and shalt sit hereafter out of fear from her rotations. A political victory, a rise of rents, the recovery of your sick, or the return of your absent friend, or some other favorable event, raises your spirits, and you think good days are preparing for you. Do not believe it. Nothing can bring you peace but yourself. Nothing can bring you peace but the triumph of principles."

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-Excerpt from "Self-Reliance" by Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Misunderstood, like Vincent Van Gogh- one of the most well-known artists of all time who produced iconic pieces such as "Starry Night" and laid the foundation of contemporary modern art- who lived with mental illness, in poverty, malnourished, and only sold one painting before taking his life with a bullet. The man who painted with such control of color and emotion never experienced success while he was alive- instead being sent to asylums and abused by the society that would one day grow to love him.

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Of course, to add fuel to fire, Sherlock doesn't concern himself with his appearance, and instead focuses on the case at hand, supporting the notion that a reliant man "must not be hindered by the name of goodness, but must explore if it be goodness." 

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Although he is undoubtedly meticulous, practical, and intelligent, his mind works too quickly for others to keep up and is usually described by others as demeaning, obnoxious, and condescending, which only serves to enhance Sherlock's independent persona, for he related to "Pythagoras [who] was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every pure and wise spirit that ever took flesh. To be great is to be misunderstood."

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"Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details."

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"Never trust to general impressions, my boy, but concentrate yourself upon details."

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- Sherlock Holmes

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"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror."

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"Where there is no imagination, there is no horror."

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- Sherlock Holmes

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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."

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"Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius."

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- Sherlock Holmes

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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

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"It is a capital mistake to theorize before one has data. Insensibly, one begins to twist facts to suit theories, instead of theories to suit facts."

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- Sherlock Holmes

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As a private detective, Sherlock Holmes must rely on his observational deductions and hard evidence to solve cases, since "nothing is at last sacred but the
integrity of our own mind."

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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

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"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth."

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- Sherlock Holmes

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Fictional Character by Arthur Conan Doyle