"One thing that I noticed is having met……" — Greg Mortenson
"One thing that I noticed is having met some former Taliban is even they, as children, grew up being indoctrinated. They grew up in violence. They grew up in war. They were taught to hate. They were, they grew up in very ignorant cultures where they didn't learn about the outside world."
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44 Quotes by Greg Mortenson
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It is my vision that we all will dedicate the next decade to achieve universal literacy and education for all…
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Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.
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The tune was too ingrained for Mortenson to consider the novelty of this moment- an American, lost in Pakistan, singing…
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The solution to terrorism is education, not bombs.
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Haji Ali taught me to share three cups of tea, to slow down and make building relationships as important as…
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My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started…
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If you really want to change a culture... empower women.
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Yes, I first visited Korphe village, Braldu valley, Baltistan, Pakistan, after failing to summit K2 in 1993, and met Haji…
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Liberals, conservatives, Muslims, Jews, Christians, and I find - I think education is something that can bring us together.
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But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
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I decided in '96 to dedicate my life to mostly promoting literacy and education for girls in rural Pakistan and…
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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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Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I…
— Asia Argento
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Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them…
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Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own.
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There's love, and certainly children you care about more than yourself. But nevertheless, we're alone in our heads.
— Paul Auster
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Three groups spend other people's money: children, thieves, politicians. All three need supervision.
— Dick Armey
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Children are supposed to help hold a marriage together. They do this in a number of ways. For instance, they…
— Richard Armour
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If you have children, you don't want to have drugs and drinks in the house. It's just not good.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can…
— David Attenborough
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Little girls are cute and small only to adults. To one another they are not cute. They are life-sized.
— Margaret Atwood
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I didn't go to school for a full year until I was 12. In the summer I was a wild…
— Margaret Atwood
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from…
— John James Audubon
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