"When windows shatter through a bomb, we will repair it next week because we are Afghans. That's the spirit."

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Source : "Transcript: NPR's Interview With Afghan President Ashraf Ghani". Interview with Renee Montagne, www.npr.org. March 23, 2015.

Ashraf Ghani

#Bombs Quotes #Next Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“If we knew what type of jobs would exist in 20 years, we would be quite rich. But we just cannot visualize it.”
“While fund performance is unpredictable, the impact of fees is not, .. A 1- percent annual fee will reduce an ending account balance by 17 percent after 20 years.”
“The Administration should never have walked away from the Kyoto Treaty. Global warming is real and it is here today. The facts aren't the issue. The policy is the issue. I think the Administration's policy on global warming is dead wrong.”
“I have not practiced saxophone since 1980. I mean, not one note. I do not pick it up in my house, and that's the end of it.”
“Like apples in a barrel infected by one rotten one, the corruption of Greece would infect Iran and all to the east. It would also carry infection to Africa through Asia Minor and Egypt, and to Europe through Italy and France, already threatened by the strongest domestic Communist parties in Western Europe. The Soviet Union was playing one of the greatest gambles in history at minimal cost. It did not need to will all the possibilities. Even one or two offered immense gains. We and we alone were in a position to break up the play.”

Source : "Present at the Creation: My Years in the State Department". Book by Dean Acheson, 1969.
“You have to simplify - there is no other way to reach a mass audience. And you have to feed them evidence of their own success to keep them motivated.”
“All the love and joy that a man has ever received in perception is laid up in him as the sunshine of a hundred years is laid up in the bole of the oak.”
“Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.”

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