"We are human behind and this part of our human nature that we don't learn the importance of anything until it's snatched from our hands. In Pakistan, when we were stopped from going to school, and that time I realized that education is very important, and education is the power for women. And that's why the terrorists are afraid of education. They do not want women to get education because then women will become more powerful."

-- Malala Yousafzai

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“To accept the story of the Arab destruction of the library of Alexandria, one must explain how it is that so dramatic an event was unmentioned and unnoticed not only in the rich historical literature of medieval Islam, but even in the literatures of the Coptic and other Christian churches, of the Byzantines, of the Jews, or anyone else who might have thought the destruction of a great library worthy of comment. That the story still survives, and is repeated, despite all these objections, is testimony to the enduring power of a myth.”
“I'm learning all the time." "Well, you're a scholar.”
“I get most of my inspiration from older records and older production styles, and that ends up rearing its head in the records that I make.”
“If you don't ask, the answer is always no.”

Source : Nora Roberts (2000). “Tears of the Moon”, p.70, Penguin
“I don't want to disappear.”
“To those who scare peace loving people with phantoms of lost liberty, my message is this: your tactics aid terrorists for they erode our national unity and diminish our resolve. They give ammunition to America's enemies and pause to America's friends.”

Source : "Ashcroft: Critics of new terror measures undermine effort", December 7, 2001.
“I donâ€™t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.”
“The Son of God goes forth to war,A kingly crown to gain;His blood red banner streams afar:Who follows in His train?Who best can drink his cup of woe,Triumphant over pain,Who patient bears his cross below,He follows in His train.”

Source : Reginald Heber (1827). “Hymns, written and adapted to the weekly church service of the year”, p.17

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