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    J.K. Rowling
    “It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all—in which case, you fail by default.”
    ― J.K. Rowling
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    Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another What! You
    “Friendship ... is born at the moment when one man says to another "What! You too? I thought that no one but myself . . .”
    ― C.S. Lewis, The Four Loves
    tags: friendship
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    Maya Angelou
    “I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
    ― Maya Angelou
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    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    ― Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches
    tags: darkness, drive-out, hate, inspirational, light, love, peace
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    J.K. Rowling
    “Dumbledore watched her fly away, and as her silvery glow faded he turned back to Snape, and his eyes were full of tears.
    "After all this time?"
    "Always," said Snape.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: dumbledore, life, love, snape
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo.
    "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: adventuring, death, time
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    George Orwell
    “Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
    ― George Orwell, 1984
    tags: truth
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    Anne Frank
    “How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world.”
    ― Anne Frank, Anne Frank's Tales from the Secret Annex: A Collection of Her Short Stories, Fables, and Lesser-Known Writings
    tags: activism, life, optimism, philosophy, world
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    J.K. Rowling
    “We're all human, aren't we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
    tags: human, life, value, worth
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    “If every person in this room made it a rule that wherever you are, whenever you can, you will try to act a little kinder than is necessary - the world really would be a better place. And if you do this, if you act just a little kinder than is necessary, someone else, somewhere, someday, may recognize in you, in every single one of you, the face of God.”
    ― R.J. Palacio, Wonder
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    Brené Brown
    “Owning our story can be hard but not nearly as difficult as spending our lives running from it. Embracing our vulnerabilities is risky but not nearly as dangerous as giving up on love and belonging and joy—the experiences that make us the most vulnerable. Only when we are brave enough to explore the darkness will we discover the infinite power of our light.”
    ― Brene Brown
    tags: belonging, courage, inspirational, light, love, vulnerability
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    Brené Brown
    “Authenticity is a collection of choices that we have to make every day. It's about the choice to show up and be real. The choice to be honest. The choice to let our true selves be seen.”
    ― Brene Brown, The Gifts of Imperfection
    tags: authenticity
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    Isabel Allende
    “We only have what we give.”
    ― Isabel Allende
    tags: charity, compassion, helping-others
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    Isabel Allende
    “You are the storyteller of your own life, and you can create your own legend, or not.”
    ― Isabel Allende
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    “When you take risks you learn that there will be times when you succeed and there will be times when you fail, and both are equally important.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
    tags: failure, inspirational, risks, success, taking-risks
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    “I'm so unfamiliar with the gym, I call it James!”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres
    tags: fitness, sobriquet
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    “Our flaws are what makes us human. If we can accept them as part of who we are, they really don't even have to be an issue.”
    ― Ellen DeGeneres, Seriously... I'm Kidding
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    “If this book has a lesson, it is that we are awfully lucky to be here-and by 'we' I mean every living thing. To attain any kind of life in this universe of ours appears to be quite an achievement. As humans we are doubly lucky, of course: We enjoy not only the privilege of existence but also the singular ability to appreciate it and even, in a multitude of ways, to make it better. It is a talent we have only barely begun to grasp.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: achievement, biology, humans, life, science, universe
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    “Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: physics
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    “Our instinct may be to see the impossibility of tracking everything down as frustrating, dispiriting, perhaps even appalling, but it can just as well be viewed as almost unbearably exciting. We live on a planet that has a more or less infinite capacity to surprise. What reasoning person could possibly want it any other way?”
    ― Bill Bryson, A Short History of Nearly Everything
    tags: curiosity
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    Steven Moffat
    “We're all stories, in the end.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: amy-pond, doctor-who, eleven, steven-moffat, stories
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    Steven Moffat
    “The Doctor: This is bad, I don't like this. [kicks console and yells in pain] Never use force, you just embarrass yourself. Unless you're cross, in which case... always use force!
    Amy: Shall I run and get the manual?
    The Doctor: I threw it in a supernova.
    Amy: You threw the manual in a supernova? Why?
    The Doctor: Because I disagreed with it! Now stop talking to me when I'm cross!”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor, doctor-who, the-doctor, the-doctor-and-amy
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    Steven Moffat
    “The Doctor: Oh, now what's this, then? I love this. A big, flashy-lighty thing. That's what brought me here. Big, flashy-lighty things have got me written all over them. Not actually, but give me time... and a crayon.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who
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    Steven Moffat
    “You should always waste time when you don't have any. Time is not the boss of you. Rule 408.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: bbc, doctor-who, eleventh-doctor
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    Steven Moffat
    “*Throwing bread out of door* AND STAY OUT!”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who, the-doctor
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    Steven Moffat
    “We all change, when you think about it. We’re all different people all through our lives. And that’s OK, that’s good, you gotta keep moving, so long as you remember all the people that you used to be.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who, eleventh-doctor
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    “Eighth Doctor: I love humans. Always seeing patterns in things that aren’t there.”
    ― Matthew Jacobs, Doctor Who: The Script of the Film
    tags: doctor-who
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    Steven Moffat
    “Heroes are important. Heroes tell us who we want to be but when they made this particular hero they didn’t give him a gun, they gave him a screwdriver to fix things. They didn’t give him a tank or a warship or an X-Wing, they gave him a call box from which you can call for help and they didn’t give him a superpower or a heat-ray, they gave him an extra heart. And that’s extraordinary. There will never come a time when we don’t need a hero like the doctor.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who, hero
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    Steven Moffat
    “Never ignore a coincidence. Unless you're busy, in which case, always ignore a coincidence.”
    ― Steven Moffat
    tags: doctor-who
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    Arthur Conan Doyle
    “When you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
    ― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes
    tags: inspirational
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