Ahmad Shah Massoud Quotes
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The highest compliment I could ever receive about my kids - and I can say that this does happen frequently - is when the in-flight crew say to me, 'Your children are wonderful. They are so well-behaved.' Every time I am told that, I could weep.
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If you're not a parent, if you're an aunt or uncle or neighbor, books are an amazing gift.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Every four years in the presidential election, some new precedent is broken.
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If God is not sending earthquakes, destroying economies and inflicting pain upon human beings, what is God doing? God works through people, calling them to help their neighbors in need. God comforts His people, walking with them even 'through the valley of the shadow of death.'
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I think it's the height of patriotism to continue to exercise your right as a citizen and to hold your government to account. Isn't that what the very essence of democracy is about?
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I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.
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Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.
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I get told all the time that I'm a fashion icon now, but I don't really know what that means. I just get dressed.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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The only peace that can be made with a dictator is once that must be based on deterrence. For today, the dictator may be your friend, but tomorrow he will need you as an enemy.
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People don't stop eating, and they don't stop drinking coffee.
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No one has yet discovered any warlike purpose to be served by the theory of numbers or relativity, and it seems unlikely that anyone will do so for many years.
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Politics is a game of compromise.
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My fingers are not as fast as my brain - which isn't that much to type home about anyway.
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I see music as one language. If one musical form eats its own tail, it dies. So it needs to be a mongrel, it needs to be hybridised.
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Experts tell us that 90% of all brain development occurs by the age of five. If we don't begin thinking about education in the early years, our children are at risk of falling behind by the time they start Kindergarten.
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A lot of great bluegrass comes out of Kentucky. There's a lot of great music, like the Judds, Billy Ray Cyrus, Ricky Skaggs, and Keith Whitley. There's a lot of bluegrass intertwined with country music.
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Gossip is when you hear something you like about someone you don't.
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The thing about a failure is that it is possible to deny it forever.
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Lying is about controlling someone else’s reality, hoping that what they don’t know won’t hurt you.
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Windows Updates have sometimes been a pain point for users. The update pop-ups can interrupt a movie or a video game, and the automatic restarts can result in lost data or confused users.
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We will never be a pawn in someone else's game. We will always be Afghanistan
