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Violeta

by Isabel Allende (Goodreads Author)

bookshelves: fiction, historical-fiction, currently-reading

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Jul 15, 2026 05:59PM

“Children are not the people of tomorrow, but are people of today. They have a right to be taken seriously, and to be treated with tenderness and respect. They should be allowed to grow into whoever they were meant to be. 'The unknown person' inside of them is our hope for the future.”
― Korczak Janusz

tags: children

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“Never miss a good chance to shut up.”
― Will Rogers

tags: advice, funny, reticence, silence

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“Information coming directly from a politician or his team, without being vetted by reporters, is little more than propaganda.”
― Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

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“And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince

tags: heart, importance, inspiration, secret, the-little-prince

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“Some politicians have a gift for language. Trump is not one of those politicians. His sentences call to mind an aerial shot of a burning, derailed freight train. The syntax is mangled. The grammar is gone. “Donald Trump isn’t a simpleton, he just talks like one,” reads a Politico article from last August.”
― Katy Tur, Unbelievable: My Front-Row Seat to the Craziest Campaign in American History

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