"â€ŽI know you're still young but I want you to understand and learn this now. Marriage can wait, education cannot. You're a very very bright girl. Truly you are. You can be anything you want Laila. I know this about you. And I also know that when this war is over Afghanistan is going to need you as much as its men maybe even more. Because a society has no chance of success if its women are uneducated Laila. No chance."

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Girl Quotes #Smart Quotes #War Quotes

“Imagine not being frightened by any feeling. Imagine knowing that nothing will destroy you. That you are beyond any feeling, and state. Bigger than. Vaster than. That there is no reason to use drugs because anything a drug could do would pale in comparison to knowing who you are.”
“Racism is not an excuse to not do the best you can.”
“The many factors which divide us are actually much more superficial than those we share. Despite all of the things that differentiate us - race, language, religion, gender, wealth and so on - we are all equal concerning our fundamental humanity.”
“I've got cheekier with age. You can get away with murder when you're 71 years old. People just think I'm a silly old fool.”
“It can seem an amazing fact that laws of nature keep on holding, that the frame of nature does not fall apart.”

Source : Simon Blackburn (1999). “Think: A Compelling Introduction to Philosophy”, p.113, Oxford University Press
“The boy shall have a proper beating,' said Cecil. 'But I beat him already,' I said, 'and don't tell me I didn't do it properly. I'm touchy about these things.”
“Gratitude is not a mere word; it is not a mere concept. It is the living breath of your real existence on earth.”
“I have a bit of an obsession with the 1950's and all those actors from Montgomery Clift to James Dean and Anthony Perkins. Just that whole era of Tennessee Williams to Elia Kazan.”

Source : Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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