When we were driving home from school expecting to go home and do hw but somehow ended up at Taco Bell
This is a great question. Emerson supports this assertion with the fact that many people become famous after their death and were misunderstood during their own time. Painter Vincent Van Gogh and poet Edgar Allen Poe, for example, were not well known and were not considered great during their time. Yet they "trusted" themselves, despite being "misunderstood" by their contemporaries and they are now considered "great."
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when Pluto's status was downgraded from a full sized planet to a dwarf planet by the International Astronomical Union.