Dr. Tom quotes from Being Erica

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"In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity."

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Albert Einstein.

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"Curiosity...

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does no less than devotion, pilgrims make."

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Abraham Cowley.

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"The life which is unexamined, is not worth living". That's Plato.

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"Do not weep. Do not wax indignant. Understand."

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Baruch Spinoza.

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"If life's journey be endless,where is its goal? The answer is... it's everywhere."

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Rabindranath Tagore.

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God! I like him.

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I never expected you to stop caring, Erica. I just wanted you to stop letting that get in your way.

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You didn't fail, Erica.

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With your parents' opinions, and your, and your friends' opinions,

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Yeah, of course, they're always gonna matter...

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they just don't matter as much as your own.

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Samuel Johnson said:

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"The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them, as they are."

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The egg. Perfection, both in function and in form. It has a double arch, top and bottom. It's what makes an egg so incredibly strong.

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But the minute that we begin to chip away at its integrity, the egg collapses in on itself until, in the end, we're left with only... breakfast.

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It's still an egg, but it's not the same.

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"Sarcasm: The last refuge of modest people when the privacy of their soul is intrusively invaded."

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Fyodor Dostoevsky.

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It's not a question of whether you can or whether you can't 'cause that's just more...

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Taking a risk is like, uh... jumping off a cliff. It's a leap into the unknown with absolutely no guarantees.

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Ultimately, Erica, you just have to decide. You have to choose how are you going to be.

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I mean, you could spend the rest of your life caught up, in that fear. Okay. Or, you could face it. Take the leap. See what comes.

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Your ice cream's melting.

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"You don't miss your water, till your well runs dry."

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William Bell.

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"We are postponing, life speeds by."

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Seneca.

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"Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies."

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George Bernard Shaw.

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Isn't that a lot of pressure for you?

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"Pressure makes diamonds."

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General George S. Patton.

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I wanted help.

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And I'm giving you what you need. I'm giving you what you asked for.

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"We learn by doing, there is no other way."

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John Holt.