"The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people……" — Greg Mortenson
"The Pathan people of Waziristan are proud people who I greatly admire."
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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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Among those whom I like or admire, I can find no common denominator, but among those whom I love, I…
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Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her…
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A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity,…
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I went through all the musicians in my life who I admire as bright, intelligent, virtuosic players.
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Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.
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True enthusiasm is a fine feeling whose flash I admire where-ever I see it.
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Men can absent themselves from real life for their art more easily. Women are anchored into the quotidian business of…
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Think of and look at your work as though it were done by your enemy. I you look at it…
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