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“Reading is the greatest thing ever, I've read alot that I know what very few people know… That the stars in the night sky are suns and that there are earth-like planets orbiting those stars, meaning there are other planets like earth out there… Reading is great”

“Being different means you are extraordinary”

“Think highly of yourself, that's how you get to the top”

“In the most vulnerable, there can be dignity, memory, and poetry.”

“One could say I understand the city as an entity that shapes those who inhabit it, even though, in the process, it can become an anthropophagous being, merciless—especially toward the less privileged.”

“Teachers should be able to help learners to efficiently communicate to other numerical ideas and to make connection with real-life problems in the areas chosen for their eventual career. Training only on subject matter is definitely not going to bring about this expertise. There must be more emphasis on coaching and facilitating techniques. In their normal practices, teachers must see very clearly where each individual learner stands on the learning continuum of that particular development, what problems and difficulties he or she is going to face and what lies ahead on that learning continuum to be walked by the learner. Teachers should be trained to be a master of how to help each and every learn to walk through the learning task. Going through the learning task is a necessary and essential aspect of teacher training but it is not sufficient to make them good and effective teachers.”

“Urban movement and noise help me speak poetically about the social world.”

“Latin America’s right-wing has no shame in throwing itself at the highest bidder — their morals shift to match whoever’s holding the purse strings.”

“Don't cry because it's over. Smile because it happened.”

“I hate smiling. It makes me feel weak and powerless and small. I've always been like that; I don't smile in any pictures.”

“A stray dog listens to what no one says and sees what is hidden, making him a privileged narrator.”

“Every literary work is a political act—not in the pamphleteering sense, which has done so much harm to art, but in that intimate—and sometimes devastating—way in which a phrase, an image, a character can shake the reader enough to make them doubt their own certainties.”

“Good literature should disturb the status quo, not preach.”

“Chile hides its wounds with order and progress; Mexico displays them with folklore.”

“The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid one are full of confidence.”

“Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead.”

“I know it seems hard sometimes but remember one thing. Through every dark night, there's a bright day after that. So no matter how hard it get, stick your chest out, keep ya head up…. and handle it.”

“Love starts when we push aside our ego and make room for someone else.”

“I am more worried about being a good person than being the best football player in the world. When all this is over, what are you left with? ”