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“Even when you win the rat race , you're still a rat .”
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“He believed that lack of education was the root of all of Pakistan’s problems. Ignorance allowed politicians to fool people and bad administrators to be re-elected.”
― I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
― I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban
“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
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“The West’s unique and, when you thought about it, surprising ideal—that a society should take care of its sick poor—had originated in those monastic hospices and infirmaries of the Middle Ages. But”
― God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
― God's Hotel: A Doctor, a Hospital, and a Pilgrimage to the Heart of Medicine
“With guns you can kill terrorists, with education you can kill terrorism.”
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A fan club honoring the hilarious but understated British author, Barbara Pym, who has been called a 20th century Jane Austen.
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