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The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#afghanistan #buddhas #destroyed #get #had

The question in their minds was, why did the outside world, and particularly the Western world, produce all these landmines, and send them to Afghanistan? This business must be stopped. It's a dirty business to produce such a horrible device. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#business #device #did #dirty #horrible

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 books, and not come out until I'd finished them. It took me a while to change that habit. ↗

— Mohsen Makhmalbaf

#become #books #came #change #come

I was a very happy child, so to speak. But, since we didn't have video games or television, and very little radio, in terms of a form of entertainment, I used to read a lot and I would draw a lot, and those two things used to occupy my time. ↗

— Mako

#draw #entertainment #form #games #happy

My Alma mater was books, a good library... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity. ↗

— Malcolm X

#could #curiosity #good #i #just

Without education, you are not going anywhere in this world. ↗

— Malcolm X

#education #going #without #world #you

Do not fear lest you should meditate too much upon Him and speak of Him in an unworthy way, providing you are led by faith. Do not fear lest you should entertain false opinions of Him so long as they are in conformity with the notion of the infinitely perfect Being. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#conformity #entertain #faith #false #fear

Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#easily #got #longer #old #prejudices

You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#arm #cannot #change #effect #evil

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. ↗

— Nicolas Malebranche

#find #immovable #log #power #rock