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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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