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Social media websites are no longer performing an envisaged function of creating a positive communication link among friends, family and professionals. It is a veritable battleground, where insults fly from the human quiver, damaging lives, destroying self-esteem and a person's sense of self-worth. Anthony Carmona
Positive Family Communication Social Media Fly Websites Sense Battleground Destroying Longer Performing Envisaged Self-Esteem Insults Self-Worth Link Friends Person Human Where Social Creating Function Media Professionals Lives Among Damaging
The longer I live the more convinced I become that one of the greatest honors we can confer on other people is to see them as they are, to recognize not only that they exist, but that they exist in specific ways and have specific realities. V. S. Naipaul
People Become Live Other Honors Ways Recognize See More Only Longer Greatest Exist Realities Them Convinced Specific
You must stand for something! It does not have to be grand, but it must be a positive that brings light to someone else's darkness. Anthony Carmona
Positive You Darkness Light Stand For Something Else Must Someone Something Does Grand Stand Brings
Education begins at home. You can't blame the school for not putting into your child what you don't put into him. Geoffrey Holder
Education Home You Blame School Put Putting Him Begins Child Your Your Child
We all have a dark side. Most of us go through life avoiding direct confrontation with that aspect of ourselves, which I call the shadow self. There's a reason why. It carries a great deal of energy. Lorraine Toussaint
Life Great Dark Great Deal Dark Side Energy Side Ourselves Carries Shadow Direct Through Self Most Call Deal Go Which Confrontation Us Aspect Reason Avoiding Why
To be converted you have to destroy your past, destroy your history. You have to stamp on it, you have to say 'my ancestral culture does not exist, it doesn't matter.' V. S. Naipaul
History You Culture Matter Past Say Ancestral Destroy Does Exist Converted Stamp Your
One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all. V. S. Naipaul
Work You People Other Born Through Self Mass Ideas Expectations
I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you. Theophilus London
You Mind Believe State Atmosphere Surroundings Create Your
Do not let where you come from define you, but never forget the values you learned from your close community. Anthony Carmona
You Values Community Define Never Never Forget Come Learned Close Forget Where Your
The Royal Family doesn't go out shopping for their uniforms: they've got some guy sewing on all the ornaments in-house. You could say I've got my own in-house team as well. Theophilus London
Family You Shopping Own Say Sewing Out Some Guy My Own Could Well Got Go Uniforms Team Ornament Royal Royal Family
An autobiography can distort; facts can be realigned. But fiction never lies: it reveals the writer totally. V. S. Naipaul
Distort Lies Totally Writer Facts Never Reveals Autobiography Fiction
Writers should provoke disagreement. V. S. Naipaul
Writers Disagreement Provoke Should
Change is the only constant, and to turn one's back and pretend that it is not coming is an exercise in futility. Anthony Carmona
Change Back Futility Pretend Constant Only Exercise Coming Turn
We have to replace our focus on personalities with a focus on ideas so that the opinionated and self-serving pronouncements and forms of cyber-bullying are replaced by thoughtful dialogue and open-minded conversation. Anthony Carmona
Conversation Focus Our Thoughtful Open-Minded Ideas Opinionated Dialogue Self-Serving Replace Replaced Forms Personalities
Humility is the armour that you clothe yourself with throughout your life. We demean each other rather than lift up ourselves. Anthony Carmona
Life You Yourself Other Humility Ourselves Rather Throughout Lift Armour Up Than Your Each
My performances have finally caught up with my ego. Ato Boldon
Ego Finally Performance Caught Up
All the world has been converted and Washington is the modem Mecca. C. L. R. James
World Has-Been All The World Been Modem Converted Mecca Washington
When I hear the word 'documentary,' I don't think certain things should be left out. You've got to keep it 100 percent as much as you can, unless your group has a meeting beforehand and says, 'Yo - don't say this, 'cause boom, boom, boom.' Other than that, it's a documentary so let's document, you know what I mean? Phife Dawg
You Cause Word Group Think Other Meeting Unless Boom Say Says Out Percent Know Document Documentary Got Hear Beforehand Left Than Mean Much Certain Should Your Certain Things Keep Things
Believe in yourself and believe in magic. Theophilus London
Yourself Believe In Yourself Believe Magic
My life is short. I can't listen to banality. V. S. Naipaul
Life Life Is Short My Life Banality Listen Short
Africa has no future. V. S. Naipaul
Future No Future Africa
One always writes comedy at the moment of deepest hysteria. V. S. Naipaul
Comedy Writes Hysteria Always Moment Deepest
The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it. V. S. Naipaul
World Men Become Nothing Allow Place Themselves Who
In England I am not English, in India I am not Indian. I am chained to the 1,000 square miles that is Trinidad; but I will evade that fate yet. V. S. Naipaul
Fate Will India Indian Am Square Square Miles Miles England English Chained
Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society. V. S. Naipaul
Simple Society Philistine Complex Seem Colonial Knows May Anyone Who
I grew up in a small place and left it when I was quite young and entered the bigger world. V. S. Naipaul
World Young Entered Small Left Up Quite Grew Bigger Place
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