"We have destroyed 80 percent of the statues. There is only small amount left and we will destroy that soon."

-- Mohammed Omar

“Look! I can't even wear glasses because my ear is missing. I'm hardcore! I'm hardcore!”
“There have been many things in my life that have tried to break me, going back to when I was two and three years old. It never stops - life will always push you to your limit. The only way I've managed to survive it all is believing in myself and knowing, somehow, beyond everything telling me otherwise, that I will succeed.”
“You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels.”
“Life is a book and there are a thousand pages I have not yet read.”

Source : Cassandra Clare (2014). “Clockwork Princess”, p.539, Simon and Schuster
“The function of education has never been to free the mind and the spirit of man, but to bind them; and to the end that the mind and spirit of his children should never escape, Homo Sapiens has employed praise, ridicule, admonition, accusation, mutilation, and even torture to chain them to the culture pattern.”
“Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.”

Source : Brad Meltzer (2012). “Heroes for My Daughter”, p.7, Harper Collins
“My time in prison only deepened my resolve against apartheid. Even while I was in prison, I fought against it, teaching my cellmates about white supremacy and how to fight against it.”
“If you were to plot my success or failure, it goes, it very seldom stays on a high plateau.”

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