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Quotes by Pakistani Authors

"It's not in the life, it's in the living."

"A man of character can have what a man of intellect can imagine."

"Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality."

"Men are different, sheep are all alike."

"The greatest of fools are those who fail to mark the invisible from the nonexistent."

"Good questions are to be appreciated, not answered."

"I love my God. I thank my Allah. I talk to him all day. He is the greatest. By giving me this height to reach people, he has also given me great responsibilities. Peace in every home, every street, every village, every country - this is my dream. Education for every boy and every girl in the world. To sit down on a chair and read my books with all my friends at school is my right. To see each and every human being with a smile of happiness is my wish."

"When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live."

"Religion is not what appears. It's what guides the appearance. There is an appearance of everything. But the appearance doesn't always have something behind it."

"Impartiality is to accept that we are partial."

"Knowledge cannot be maintained without character."

"Education is education. We should learn everything and then choose which path to follow." Education is neither Eastern nor Western, it is human."

"Though we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us. Going to school, reading and doing our homework wasn't just a way of passing time, it was our future."

"Real comedy is not when you laugh at an idiot, it's when the idiot laughs at you."

"The intelligent have plans, the wise have principles."

"Artist is not human, but humanity."

"Consider an achievement accidental if it is not coupled with modesty. Because if the achiever had endeavoured for it, it would certainly have killed their pride."

"We thought speaking in English meant you were more intelligent. We were wrong of course. It does not matter what language you choose, the important thing is the words you use to express yourself."

"THough we loved school, we hadn't realized how important education was until the Taliban tried to stop us."

"The ordeal is not that truth does not win, it is that it wins in the end."

"I believe the gun has no power at all."

"Some parents do not send their children to school because they don't know its importance at all."

"There should be no discrimination against languages people speak, skin color, or religion."
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