Justin Balderas
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“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”
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“In this respect, our townsfolk were like everybody else, wrapped up in themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they disbelieved in pestilences. A pestilence isn't a thing made to man's measure; therefore we tell ourselves that pestilence is a mere bogy of the mind, a bad dream that will pass away. But it doesn't always pass away and, from one bad dream to another, it is men who pass away, and the humanists first of all, because they have taken no precautions.”
― The Plague
― The Plague

“to learn and not to do is really not to learn. To know and not to do is really not to know.”
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change
― The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change

“Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside and something else will take its place. If I quit, however, it lasts forever.”
― It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
― It's Not About the Bike: My Journey Back to Life
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