I have learned silence from the talkative, toleration from the intolerant, and kindness from the unkind; yet, strange, I am ungrateful to those teachers.

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Adolescents are not monsters. They are just people trying to learn how to make it among the adults in the world, who are probably not so sure themselves.

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I've seen and met angels wearing the disguise of ordinary people living ordinary lives. - Tracy Chapman

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Many of life's failures are people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up. — Thomas A. Edison

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It was really hard for them to intimidate me. They felt I was intimidating. One of the growers had a name for me: I think it was 'dragon lady' or something like it. - Dolores Huerta

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My strength is as the strength of ten, because my heart is pure. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

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The dog is a gentleman; I hope to go to his heaven not man's.― Mark Twain

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Don't look back. Something might be gaining on you. - Satchel Paige

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In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous.- Aristotle

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Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.

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