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“In three words I can sum up everything I've learned about life: it goes on.”
― Robert Frost

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“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
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“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
― H. Jackson Brown Jr., P.S. I Love You

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