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All Quotes Collection
"One way or another, we all have to find what best fosters the flowering of our humanity in this contemporary life, and dedicate ourselves to that."
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"When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity."
22
"We Canadians are not given as a people to great patriotic displays."
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"To suggest that Quebecers willingly give up the chance to exercise fully their influence within the federal government would be to betray the historical role Quebec has always played in Confederation, and to undermine the legitimacy of their pride and ambitions."
32
"Since the end of the Second World War, our population has more than doubled to 27 million people."
33
"For me, unemployment and poverty in the Greater Montreal area is not mainly a problem of structure, or design, or statistics. It is a profoundly human situation."
30
"Canadians want to see real hope restored, not false hopes raised."
35
"An increasing number of Canadians must juggle the demands of work with the need to care for children, or for family members who are ill or too frail to care for themselves. Our programs have simply not kept pace with these societal changes."
54
"I believe that Canadians have the common sense to see that a better future cannot be built on fragmentation."
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"On the same day I was sworn in as Prime Minister of Canada, I announced the most sweeping reform ever undertaken in the structure of our federal government."
37
"I have always believed governments must adapt to the needs of the people, not the other way around."
40
"Government cannot and must not replace private initiative."
35
"I believe it is time for new leadership that is able to leave the '70s behind."
37
"Governments allocate enormous resources for social programs. And it is true that for many years we have had one of the best social service systems in the world. Yet we are still incapable of meeting the needs of tens of thousands of Canadian families."
59
"Our first Prime Minister saw a country that would be known for its generosity of spirit. And so it is."
43
"I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father."
34
"The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own."
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"An original something, dear maid, you would wish me to write; but how shall I begin? For I'm sure I have not original in me, Excepting Original Sin."
Sin,
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"Actual violence has no attraction for me at all."
43
"To deny women directors, as I suspect is happening in the States, is to deny the feminine vision."
34
"What I have learned from my work up to now, is to try to be open, but also protect myself by not letting the good and the evil get too much importance."
36
"Women often postpone their lives, thinking that if they're not with a partner then it doesn't really count. They're still searching for their prince, in a way. And as much as we don't discuss that, because it's too embarrassing and too sad, I think it really does exist."
39
"Women today are dealing with both their independence and also the fact that their lives are built around finding and satisfying the romantic models we grew up with."
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"Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason."
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"For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of equilibrium."
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"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor."
13
"Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives."
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"His acting remains forever fixed in a time that never dates."
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"It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be."
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"The paranoiac is the exact image of the ruler. The only difference is their position in the world. One might even think the paranoiac the more impressive of the two because he is sufficient unto himself and cannot be shaken by failure."
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