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I don’t think people by nature are extremists. You will never find a population of extremists. Extremists have existed throughout the centuries on all religions. And what happens is, extremists start to have more leverage when the situation is bad.

Queen Rania of Jordan

Look at any country that’s plagued with poverty, disease or violence; the antidote is girls. Girls are the antibodies to many of society’s ills.
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Country Girl Looks
By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive – and that precludes everything.
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Everything Goal Lines Precludes Self
When girls are educated, you get effects that cascade throughout society.
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Cascade Educated Girl
I really feel that political will is born out of popular will.
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Born Political Will
My role models are people who can do things; I say to myself, ‘I wish I could do that.’
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Models People Role Wish
The job description for a queen changes with the times.
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Description Jobs Queens
Being queen is overrated.
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Being Overrated People Queens
Maybe clothes are a form of creative expression for me. An outlet. Because I don’t get to express myself creatively through my official duties.
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Clothes Creative Expression
We shouldn’t judge people through the prism of our own stereotypes.
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Judging People Stereotype
Good teachers teach. Great teachers transform.
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Great Teacher Transform Good
Religion and modernity are not necessarily mutually exclusive.
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Exclusive Modernity Religion
At the end of the day, the position is just a position, a title is just a title, and those things come and go. It’s really your essence and your values that are important.
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Day End Essence Important
I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women’s empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Children Daunting Empowerment Opportunity Safety Women
It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.
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Fleeting Judgment Television
Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled.
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Changing Dream Jobs Life
Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Course Democracy Process