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Chasing the Monsoon

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Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can't Stop Talking

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“Don’t you want to be alive before you die?”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“Relationships are built in the silences. You spend time with people, you observe them and interact with them, and you come to know them—and that is what apartheid stole from us: time.”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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“You know the greatest lesson of history? It’s that history is whatever the victors say it is. That’s the lesson. Whoever wins, that’s who decides the history. We act in our own self-interest. Of course we do. Name me a person or a nation who does not. The trick is figuring out where your interests are.”
― Anthony Doerr, All the Light We Cannot See

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“He chose to have me in his life... Being chosen is the greatest gift you can give to another human being”
― Trevor Noah, Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

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“Open your eyes and see what you can with them before they close forever.”
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