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The Great British Bake Off: a summary

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I can fly, I can fly, I can fly, I can fly, I can fly, I can fly, I can fly...

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Cause and effect. Life is an uncompromising disciplinarian. 

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Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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That’s all anybody can do right now. Live. Hold out. Survive. I don’t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won’t matter if we don’t survive these times.

Octavia E. Butler

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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

Maya Angelou

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I owe myself the biggest apology for putting up with what I didn’t deserve.

Unknown (via thoughtkick)

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Allow yourself the space to process your thoughts but then hunker down and begin building! 

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So much

We’ve gotten good at 

subterfuge.

‘Making nice’ until 

the uncomfortably large 

elephant in the room 

fades into the wallpaper.

Disappointment and 

unspoken rage 

line the floor like so much

Nothing.

Making it easier to tread with nimble footsteps.

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Fear makes companions of us all

Doctor Who

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Distraction is easier than harmony but not more powerful.

Bones

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Human progress isn't measured by industry. It's measured by the value you place on a life... an unimportant life... a life without privilege.

-Doctor Who, Thin Ice

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"But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin."

"In fact," said Mustapha Mond, "you're claiming the right to be unhappy."

"All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy."

"Not to mention the right to grow old and ugly and impotent; the right to have syphilis and cancer; the right to have too little to eat; the right to be lousy; the right to live in constant apprehension of what may happen to-morrow; the right to catch typhoid; the right to be tortured by unspeakable pains of every kind." There was a long silence.

“I claim them all," said the Savage at last.

-Brave New World

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Nell: “Should I be worried?“

Heddy: “Has that ever helped? Be careful, yes. Be vigilant, definitely. Leave the worry to your enemy.

-NCIS: Los Angeles, Deep Trouble