"I'm, by nature, a really optimistic person. It goes back to my parents having been each divorced three times and my finding some way to survive all that. I always managed to survive by being upbeat."

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Hector Tobar

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“You can only learn what obedience is by obeying”
“It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.”
“If we want scientists and engineers in the future, we should be cultivating the girls as much as the boys.”
“Most Australians who've got an ear can do an American accent because we grow up listening to them on television and in movies.”
“How is education supposed to make me feel smarter? Besides, every time I learn something new, it pushes some old stuff out of my brain. Remember when I took that home winemaking course, and I forgot how to drive?”
“Let every head of household see to it that he has on hand enough food and clothing and, where possible, fuel also for at least a year ahead.”
“There's such a big difference between being dead and alive, I told myself, the greatest gift that anyone can give anyone else is life. And the greatest sin a person can do to another is to take away that life. Next to that, all the rules and religions in the world are secondary; mere words and beliefs that people choose to believe and kill and hate by. My life won't be lived that way, and neither, I hope, will my children's.”
“Anytime you go upside a man's head - or a woman - then they have a tendency to blink they eyes. Or close they eyes.”

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