"Helping survivors of residential schools in Canada is not the same as the UN sending in peacekeepers to prevent the genocide in Rwanda. But both are a reflection of our culture and of our priorities. Where there is empathy there is always a solution, where there is apathy there is always an excuse."

-- Payam Akhavan

#School Quotes #Reflection Quotes #Empathy Quotes

“Unless you're a terribly bad writer, you are never going to have too many readers.”

Source : "The Andrew Wylie Rules". Interview with Laura Bennett, newrepublic.com. October 8, 2013.
“I am a star because I have always felt so alienated and I project this feeling to others.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Our object should not be to have scripture on our side but to be on the side of scripture; and however dear any sentiment may have become by being long entertained, so soon as it is seen to be contrary to the Bible, we must be prepared to abandon it without hesitation.”
“I was never very happy at school.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I have a piano and a guitar, and I tend to switch back and forth between those two instruments to help me get inspired.”
“Try viewing everyone who comes into your life as a teacher.”
“God ordains opposition so that he may prove to the opponents, who are many in number, to the few that God chooses to bless, that if God's hand is with that few, the many cannot oppose and be successful.”
“I stress the uniqueness of the Australian landscape and its metaphysical and mythic content.”

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