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Really, what education does is it gives opportunity, but it also gives hope.


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When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.

When you take the time to actually listen, with humility, to what people have to say, it's amazing what you can learn. Especially if the people who are doing the talking also happen to be children.



If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.

If you teach a boy, you educate an individual; but if you teach a girl, you educate a community.



If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.

If you really want to change a culture to empower women improve basic hygiene and health care and fight high rates of infant mortality the answer is to educate girls.



My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.

My father ended up starting the Kilimanjaro Christian Medical Centre, which is on the slopes of Kilimanjaro. My mother started a school.



In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.

In times of war, you often hear leaders—Christian, Jewish, and Muslim—saying, ‘God is on our side.’ But that isn’t true. In war, God is on the side of refugees, widows, and orphans.



Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.

Slow down and make building relationships as important as building projects.



If you really want to change a culture... empower women.

If you really want to change a culture... empower women.



You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.

You can hand out condoms, drop bombs, build roads, or put in electricity, but until the girls are educated a society won’t change.



When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.

When your kids accomplish something it means much more than anything you've done.



Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu

Trust in Allah, but tie up your camel.' Sign in Skardu





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It was a needless precaution, I felt sure, but men always enjoy marching around with weapons and flexing their figurative muscles, and I saw no reason to deny them this harmless exercise.



I felt alone, my loneliness suffocated me, and I craved to scream, shout and kill me while seeing all this. However, self-hatred also occupied me.

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Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.

Is truth always positive? Of course. Once the truth comes out, you know, it's all right. We're scared that if the truth comes out that it's not all right. It's the other way around.



We don't exist unless we are deeply and sensually in touch with that which can be touched but not known.

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Success, cannot be attained alone. Any person's time and power is limited. A wise leader enlists others in working toward organizational goals.

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A careful and sympathetic sense of humour can also be a great asset when there is need to get out of difficult situations gracefully.

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My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.

My dinner party,' Miles grated. 'It's just breaking up.' And sinking. All souls feared lost.



Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.

Our basic problem today is that we have two religions in conflict, humanism and Christianity, each with its own morality and the laws of that morality.




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