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Greg Mortenson Quotes

I used to climb mountains a lot; I decided to go to Pakistan to climb K2, the world's second-highest mountain. I didn't get quite to the top.

Recitation: by Male by Female

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Author Profession: writer
Nationality: american

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Mountains Mountain Climb World Go

Never revisit the past, that's dangerous. You know, move on.

Past You Dangerous Move On Know

My wife tells me I should check out 'Downton Abbey', but I gather that series might be almost too intense for my temperate nature.

Nature Wife Me Out Check Intense

Nelson Mandela sat in a South African prison for 27 years. He was nonviolent. He negotiated his way out of jail. His honor and suffering of 27 years in a South African prison is really ultimately what brought about the freedom of South Africa. That is nonviolence.

Coretta Scott King

Freedom Suffering Prison Honor Way

Beauty must appeal to the senses, must provide us with immediate enjoyment, must impress us or insinuate itself into us without any effort on our part.

Beauty Effort Impress Without Us

It's impossible to map out a route to your destination if you don't know where you're starting from.

Destination Impossible You Know Map

God does not change; he is Love, ever and always. In himself, he is communion, unity in Trinity, and all his words and works are directed to communion.

Pope Benedict XVI

Love Change God Words Unity Always

I'm an escapist. I'm not a planner; I've never made a decision about anything in my life. The good thing about Africa is that you can escape forever. You can do what you want without someone looking over your shoulder.

Life Good Decision Looking My Life

The first time I was nominated for an award for professional acting, I was in my mid-twenties. I was married and the mother of my first two daughters. I had been working for near to 15 years.

Mother Time Award Acting First Time

I read all the time. Sometimes I get asked if I've thought about writing a novel.

Time Writing Thought Sometimes Get

After literally hundreds of firefights, Chosen Company became increasingly battle-hardened. And they also became increasingly suspicious of their Afghan counterparts, believing - with their lives on the line at the end of the day - that they could only truly rely on themselves.

Day End Of The Day End Believing

We need to shift from an economic organizing principle for human civilization, to a humanitarian organizing principle. Making money more important than your own children is a pathological way for an individual to run their affairs, and it's a pathological way for a society to run its affairs.

Marianne Williamson

Children Money Society Making Money

I used to be a serious sneaker addict, but I've moved on a little bit from those days.

Serious Days Little Used Moved Bit

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