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No one is ever Ready

No one is ever Ready

Dr. Stephen Strange: I’m not ready.

The Ancient One: No one ever is. We don’t get to choose our time. Death is what gives life meaning. To know your days are numbered. Your time is short.

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The Ancient One

You’re a man looking at the world through a keyhole, and you’ve spent your whole life trying to widen that keyhole, to see more, to know more, and now, on hearing that it can be widened, in ways you can’t imagine you reject the possibility.

THE ANCIENT ONE

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SURRENDER

SURRENDER

The Ancient One: You cannot beat a river into submission. You have to surrender to its current and use its power as your own.

Dr. Stephen Strange: I control it by surrendering control? That doesn’t make any sense.

T...

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It’s not about you.

It’s not about you.

The Ancient One: You wonder what I see in your future?

Dr. Stephen Strange: No... Yes.

The Ancient One: I never saw your future, only its possibilities. You have such a capacity for goodness. You always excelled, but not because you...

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The Ancient One

We never lose our demons, We only learn to live above them.

THE ANCIENT ONE

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Mordo

I once stood in your place. And I, too, was disrespectful. So, might I offer you some advice? Forget everything you think you know.

MORDO

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STUDY & PRACTICE

STUDY & PRACTICE

Dr. Stephen Strange: But even if my fingers could do that my hands would just be waving in the air. How do I get from here to there?

The Ancient One: How did you get to reattach severed nerves and put a human spine back together bone by bone?

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