"Once I started the first school, I realized this is what my life is meant to be, is to promote education and help kids go to school, and that's very clear."

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Source : "Greg Mortenson: 'Ordinary Oprah'". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. March 12, 2009.

Greg Mortenson

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“If you look just at the decades after 1934, you know it's hard to point to really inspired and positive support from outside of Haiti, to Haiti, and much easier to point to either small-minded or downright mean-spirited policies.”
“Kids made fun of me because I was a slow learner, because I was hyperactive, because of a lot of things. Running gave me confidence.”
“Cultural America is under siege. And as the Soviet experience illustrates, ideology is a weak glue to hold together people otherwise lacking racial, ethnic, and cultural sources of community.”

Source : Samuel P. Huntington (2005). “Who Are We?: The Challenges to America's National Identity”, Simon & Schuster
“My job is to find the stories, find where to go, do the research, do the logistics, be there on location, and do as much as possible to get the footage that we need to make an incredible film.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“A shrinking economy means lost sales and lost jobs”
“On every side, and at every hour of the day, we came up against the relentless limitations of pioneer life.”
“We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.”
“Such an executive officer the sun never shone on. I have but to show him my design, and I know that it can be done, it will be done...Straight as the needle to the pole he advanced to the execution of my purpose.”

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