"The example my parents set, both in and outside of our household, helped me understand that we all have a specific purpose in life--to give back to society."

-- Ilyasah Shabazz

#Giving Quotes #Parent Quotes #Example Quotes

“By playing games you can artificially speed up your learning curve to develop the right kind of thought processes.”
“It seems that Canada's historic mission is to come to the selfless aid both of its friends and of complete strangers, and then, once the crisis is over, to be well and truly ignored. Canada is the perpetual wallflower that stands on the edge of the hall, waiting for someone to come and ask her for a dance.”

Source : "The Country the World Forgot - Again". www.telegraph.co.uk. April 21, 2002.
“A chic type, a rough type, an odd type - but never a stereotype”
“I'm always very careful to make the distinction between music criticism and music journalism. A lot of people don't. But criticism doesn't require reporting. You can write criticism at home in your underwear. On the other hand, journalism takes legwork - you have to get out there and see things and talk to people.”
“I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and always have blotting papers.”
“There is a time when even justice brings harm.”
“We need music to restore the human spirit”
“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.”

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