"With her courage and determination, Malala has shown what terrorists fear most: a girl with a book."

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Source : Ban Ki-moon's statement on the Awarding of the Nobel Prize for Peace to Malala Yousafzai and Kailash Satyarthi, www.un.org. October 10, 2014.

Ban Ki-moon

#Girl Quotes #Determination Quotes #Book Quotes

“They don't know what they're in for at Spence, getting me, a ghost of a girl who'll nod and smile and take her tea but who isn't really here.”
“I also work out because I have scoliosis. I have to maintain certain strength in my core.”

Source : "Joan Smalls on House of Style, Rihanna, and Eating Sugar". Interview with Alex Catarinella, www.elle.com. September 8, 2012.
“There's something I believe wholeheartedly: Cynicism is the true refuge of the pseudo-intellectual, .. Cynicism is easy. Joy is an extremely advanced spiritual and intellectual tenet.”
“No documents, no person.”
“Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.”
“The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.”
“I have never come to know God, to see God, to believe in God through doing science. He's not the conclusion of some sort of process of my personal scientific investigation.”

Source : Source: www.pbs.org
“Demagoguery enters at the moment when, for want of a common denominator, the principle of equality degenerates into the principle of identity.”

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