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THREE CUPS OF TEA BY GREG MORTENSON AND DAVID OLIVER RELIN

Greg Mortenson is a high hill climber, who ended up in a far and impoverished town in Pakistan, after a failed essay to climb K2. Moved by the inhabitants' tenderness, he promised to turn back and build a institute. Over the past fifteen years, he has built more than 55 schools in far areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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"When the china ware bowls of scalding butter tea steamed in their hands, Haji Ali spoke. "If you lack to thrive in Baltistan, you must esteem our ways. The first duration you share tea with a Balti, you are a alien. The second duration you take tea, you are an honored visitor. The third time you divide a cup of tea, you become family, and for our parents and children, we are prepared to do anything, even die. Dr. Greg, you must create time to portion three cups of tea. We may be unlearned. But we are not stupid. We have lived and survived here for a lengthy time."
Mortenson continues,  "That day, Haji Ali strained me the most important exercise I have learned in my the vital spark. We Americans contemplate you have to accomplish everything post-haste. We're the country of thirty-tiny power lunches and two-tiny football drills…Haji Ali stretched me to slow down and create building relationships as of moment as building projects. He tense me that I had more to learn from the clan I work with than I could ever reliance to teach them" (p. 150).*******'Run over us, if there was one thing we could do for your town, what would it be?''With all respect, Sahib, you have minute to teach us in might and toughness. And we don't...

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