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

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Source : Greg Mortenson (2009). “Stones into Schools: Promoting Peace with Education in Afghanistan and Pakistan”, p.27, Penguin

Greg Mortenson

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“Why do we have to die to got to heaven? The earth is already in space.”
“Don't never follow your first mind, cause that's the one that's wrong. 'Cause the Devil beats God to you every time.”
“My philosophy is the thicker the wood the thicker the sound, the bigger the string the bigger the sound. My smallest string is a 14 gauge.”
“At last, in the gray dawn of Civilization the fire in the Soul dies down. The dwindling powers rise to one more, half-successful, effort of creation, and produce the Classicism that is common to all dying Cultures. The soul thinks once again, and in Romanticism looks back piteously to its childhood; then finally, weary, reluctant, cold, it loses its desire to be, and, as in Imperial Rome, wishes itself out of the overlong daylight and back in the darkness of protomysticism in the womb of the mother in the grave.”

Source : Oswald Spengler (1991). “The Decline of the West”, p.75, Oxford University Press, USA
“You're never going to get rid of the injuries. The injuries are going to happen as long as there's football, especially the way it's always been played. So that's something that won't go away. But I guess they're trying to do the best they can to reduce those injuries and really take guys out of harm's way as much as they can.”
“If you make someone feel guilty about their mistake, then you have not forgiven them. That guilt is itself punishment.”
“Always kiss your children goodnight, even if they're already asleep.”
“Matrimony is the only game of chance the clergy favor.”

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