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    Jennifer Worth
    “Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in awhile you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.”
    ― Jennifer Worth, The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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    Mahatma Gandhi
    “Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.”
    ― Mahatma Gandhi
    tags: carpe-diem, education, inspirational, learning
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    Mark Twain
    “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: attributed-no-source, education
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    Oscar Wilde
    “You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: education, fashion
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    Brigham Young
    “You educate a man; you educate a man. You educate a woman; you educate a generation.”
    ― Brigham Young
    tags: education, feminism, men, women
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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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    Maya Angelou
    “I did then what I knew how to do. Now that I know better, I do better.”
    ― Maya Angelou
    tags: attributed, attributed-no-source, education, intelligence, knowledge, unsourced
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    Walter Cronkite
    “Whatever the cost of our libraries, the price is cheap compared to that of an ignorant nation.”
    ― Walter Cronkite
    tags: education, ignorance, intelligence, libraries
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    Robert Frost
    “Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
    ― Robert Frost
    tags: education
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    Eckhart Tolle
    “The past has no power over the present moment.”
    ― Eckhart Tolle
    tags: education, inspirational, life, philosophy, truth, wisdom
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    Margaret Mead
    “Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
    ― Margaret Mead
    tags: children, education, judgement, mentoring, reasoning
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  • #12
    “Only a generation of readers will spawn a generation of writers.”
    ― Steven Spielberg
    tags: education, reading
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “I like the night. Without the dark, we'd never see the stars.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella-swan, dreams, edward, hope, night, stars
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “And so the lion fell in love with the lamb…" he murmured. I looked away, hiding my eyes as I thrilled to the word.
    "What a stupid lamb," I sighed.
    "What a sick, masochistic lion.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
    tags: bella, edward, love
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    Stephenie Meyer
    “He's like a drug for you, Bella.”
    ― Stephenie Meyer, Eclipse
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    J.K. Rowling
    “The truth." Dumbledore sighed. "It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and should therefore be treated with great caution.”
    ― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
    tags: truth
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    I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control
    “I'm selfish, impatient and a little insecure. I make mistakes, I am out of control and at times hard to handle. But if you can't handle me at my worst, then you sure as hell don't deserve me at my best.”
    ― Marilyn Monroe
    tags: attributed-no-source, best, life, love, misattributed-marilyn-monroe, mistakes, out-of-control, truth, worst
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    Oscar Wilde
    “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: attributed-no-source, be-yourself, gilbert-perreira, honesty, inspirational, misattributed-oscar-wilde, quote-investigator
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    “So we bloom where we are planted, turning our faces to the sun. - From the 2013 Call the Midwife Christmas Special”
    ― Heidi Thomas
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    “Not every happiness is chosen. Some, like the harvest, simply have to be accepted.”
    ― Heidi Thomas
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    Jennifer Worth
    “The shell must be broken before the bird can fly.”
    ― Jennifer Worth, The Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
    tags: call-the-midwife-tv-series
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    Jennifer Worth
    “Circumstances bring people together, and take them apart. One cannot keep up with everyone in a lifetime.”
    ― Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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    Jennifer Worth
    “Life turns on little things. The momentous events in history can leave us untouched, while small events may shape our destinies.”
    ― Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse
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    Jennifer Worth
    “Now and then in life, love catches you unawares, illuminating the dark corners of your mind, and filling them with radiance. Once in a while you are faced with a beauty and a joy that takes your soul, all unprepared, by assault.”
    ― Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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    Jennifer Worth
    “But life is made of happiness and tragedy in equal proportions, and we will never change that.”
    ― Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: Farewell to the East End
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    Jennifer Worth
    “I am forced to the conclusion that modern medicine does not know it all.”
    ― Jennifer Worth, Call the Midwife: A Memoir of Birth, Joy, and Hard Times
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    Jennifer Worth
    “You know the secret of life, my dear, because you know how to love.”
    ― Jennifer Worth, Shadows of the Workhouse
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