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• It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all children, especially…
• Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.
• The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing a German…
• The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.
• Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.…
• My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.
• If you really want to change a culture... empower women.
• Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji Ali, a…
• Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.
• But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
• I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and Afghanistan.
• I say if you fight terrorism, it's based in fear, but if you promote peace, it's based on hope.

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