"I've had five grandparents who have had Alzheimer's. I've been involved in raising money for two decades, so I thought, how could I combine my work with this commitment to helping dementia? One of the myths is that it's an older person's disease. We're seeing early onset dementia among people at 45. It's the disease of everybody."

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Source : Source: www.macleans.ca

Jordan Banks

#Commitment Quotes #People Quotes #Grandparent Quotes

“Forgive me if, in friendshipâ€™s way, I offer thee a wreath of May.... [N]ourished by the dews of heaven.... So I have Ivy placed between, To prove that worth is ever green. The little blue Forget-me-not... Springâ€™s messenger in every spot, Smiling on allâ€”"Remember me!”
“I actually think some of the rappers can help our image, because the thing Im concerned about is the NBAs image. I always want our image to be on the rise, and if the rappers can help young players get business-minded, then Im all for it.”
“The two great movers of the human mind are the desire of good and the fear of evil.”

Source : New Dawn Press, Incorporated, Amit Abraham (2004). “Personality Development Through Positive Thinking”, p.9, Sterling Publishers Pvt. Ltd
“This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.”
“I find that I put my body in my work when I am at a particularly difficult or joyous point because I want to feel that moment.”

Source : "When Sam Taylor-Wood met Yoko Ono". Interview with Kate Kellaway, www.theguardian.com. June 16, 2012.
“help that is not positively necessary is a hindrance to a growing organism.”

Source : Dorothy Canfield Fisher (1912). “A Montessori Mother”
“In a word, acts of any kind produce habits or characters of the same kind. Hence we ought to make sure that our acts are of a certain kind; for the resulting character varies as they vary. It makes no small difference, therefore, whether a man be trained in his youth up in this way or that, but a great difference, or rather all the difference.”
“Among the handful of British diplomats and military men aware of their government's secret policy in the Middle East-that the Arabs were being encouraged to fight and die on the strength of promises that had already been traded away-were many who regarded that policy as utterly shameful, an affront to British dignity.”

Source : Scott Anderson (2014). “Lawrence in Arabia: War, Deceit, Imperial Folly and the Making of the Modern Middle East”, p.276, Atlantic Books Ltd

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