Truly I was born to be an example of misfortune, and a target at which the arrows of adversary are aimed.

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Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.

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What motivates me is to leave a legacy. We need to learn to educate people and set an example. - Cristina Martínez

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The tongue is the only instrument that gets sharper with use.

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To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall. – Ann Patchett

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I believe that the most joyful and intrinsic motivation human beings have for taking any action is the desire to meet our needs and the needs of others. — Marshall B. Rosenberg

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The only way to entertain some folks is to listen to them.

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Reading is that fruitful miracle of a communication in the midst of solitude.

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There are two types of collector, I think. There are those who are quite academic, and get into the archaeology of finding the earliest example of a particular idea. Then there are those interested in what's new.

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There is only one certainty in life and that is that nothing is certain. — G.K. Chesterton

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