"Indigenous languages are Canada's national treasures. They are our identity. We simply have to put greater effort into rejuvenating and revitalizing them. It is key to moving forward."

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Perry Bellegarde

#Moving Quotes #Effort Quotes #Identity Quotes

“Children have to be motivated to want to learn to read. Reading must not be taught simply as a school exercise.”
“Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.”
“I'm a living testimony that anything is possible.”
“My father would say, 'Play a scale,' and I'd play one and he'd say, 'What about the rest? There must be one above,' so we'd figure them out. I'd start the scale on the root of the chord and I'd go as far as my hand would reach without going out of position, say, five frets, and then I'd go all the way back. So when ! practised I'd start right away on scales. As well as the usual ones, I'd play whole tone scales, diminished, dominant sevenths, and chromatic scales. Every chord form, all the way up, and this took an hour.”
“You know, maybe I was just born in the wrong time, but I love all things romantic. Puffy understands that. For my last birthday, he covered my hotel room floor with rose petals and had flowers and candles all over the room.”
“Why do people have to be this lonely? What's the point of it all? Millions of people in this world, all of them yearning, looking to others to satisfy them, yet isolating themselves. Why? Was the earth put here just to nourish human loneliness?”

Source : FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Aug 05, 2011
“Identity politics is the mother's milk of the Democratic Left.”
“What we call people so often distances us from them, and makes them little.”

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