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Our Bloc: How We Win

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Berlin: City of Animals: The story of Germany's oldest and most famous zoo

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Roo’s Quotes

“Words are, in my not-so-humble opinion, our most inexhaustible source of magic. Capable of both inflicting injury, and remedying it.”
― J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

tags: dumbledore, power-of-words

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“To suffer terribly and to know yourself as the cause: that is Hell.”
― Jordan B. Peterson, 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

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“But it's important to be happy about the little you have. However little it is, it's infinitely more than nothing.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Christmas Mystery

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“So self-acceptance does not mean self-admiration or even self-liking at every moment of our lives, but tolerance for all our emotions, including those that make us feel uncomfortable.”
― Gabor Maté, Scattered Minds: The Origins and Healing of Attention Deficit Disorder – The International Bestseller

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“He kisses—how do I explain it? Like someone in love. Like he has nothing to lose. Like someone who has just learned a foreign language and can use only the present tense and only the second person. Only now, only you. There are some men who have never been kissed like that. There are some men who discover, after Arthur Less, that they never will be again.”
― Andrew Sean Greer, Less

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