"Costa Rica, with its tourist-based economy and lack of a national army, has focused on keeping safe its beaches, parks and other public draws. It is one if the safest countries in Central America based on the number of homicides."

-- Laura Chinchilla

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“When something is bothering me, I seek refuge. No need to travel far; a trip to the realm of literary memory will suffice. For where can one find more noble distraction, more entertaining company, more delightful enchantment than in literature?”
“Shakespeare's work is like a good song: you never really forget the main lines.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think there are so many children being brought up in some form of violence, be it violence of poverty or sexism or racism or homophobia or transphobia. That violence takes a life to transform or overcome. I don't think people should be spending their lives dealing with that. I think people should be thriving, playing, creating, evolving.”
“None of us can afford to pay the price of resenting...because of what it does to us.”
“I didn't realize the age thing until I got hired and everybody was telling me I was f - -ing old.”
“We must express the view, based on our empirical observations, that a substantial number of journalists are ignorant, lazy, opinionated, and intellectually dishonest. The profession is heavily cluttered with aged hacks toiling through a miasma of mounting decrepitude and often alcoholism, and even more so with arrogant and abrasive youngsters who substitute 'commitment' for insight. The product of their impassioned intervention in public affairs is more often confusion than lucidity.”

Source : "A Brief to the Special Senate Committee on the Mass Media from the Sherbrooke Record". 1969.
“Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.”

Source : Carol Kent (1990). “Secret passions of the Christian woman”, NavPress Publishing Group
“Collecting intelligence information is like trying to drink water out of a fire hydrant. You know, in hindsight It's great. The problem is there's a million dots at the time.”

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