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"Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."
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"God's most lordly gift to man is decency of mind."
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"Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man."
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"I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should."
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"Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children."
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"Mystery has its own mysteries, and there are gods above gods. We have ours, they have theirs. That is what's known as infinity."
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"I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have."
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"There's too much tendency to attribute to God the evils that man does of his own free will."
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"To think is of itself to be useful; it is always and in all cases a striving toward God."
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"We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's."
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"Grandchildren are God's way of compensating us for growing old."
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"The Buddhas had to be destroyed by the Taliban to get the world thinking about Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"In many ways, it is very real, because I sat there for 9 days, and it was constantly happening, and that was the 9 days of making the film. But you can't say that it's 100% true, because there are places where I've been intrusive and interfered."
Film
"There's an 800 kilometer border between Iran and Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"A problem was the lack of cooperation of the Afghan community itself. The women, though living in Iran, were under cover and not willing to participate in the film, and none of the ethnic groups were willing to work together or be together."
Work
"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."
Business
"Do you know that every day, 10 people in Afghanistan are injured by landmines? It will continue for the next 50 years, because the country has the largest number of landmines in the world."
People
"Afghan society is very complex, and Afghanistan has a very complex culture. Part of the reason it has remained unknown is because of this complexity."
Society
"In Afghanistan, this is the problem, because everybody holds a piece of that mirror, and they all look at it and claim that they hold the entire truth."
Truth
"But also, there are no films being made about Afghanistan."
Afghanistan
"From 7 in the morning to 11 at night, I was reading. I don't think one can find any other time in one's life to be left alone so much to read in peace like that."
Life
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