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"The Canadian spirit is cautious, observant and critical where the American is assertive."
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"The moon cannot outshine the sun."
"Prostitutes are paid for taking their clothes off. Celebrities are paid for putting others' clothes on."
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". . . they would neither hate nor envy us if they did not deem us so much happier than themselves."
"The dividing line between those who will be great and those who will be mediocre is the amount of time each person converts into added value to himself."
"A scientist is proud of his intelligence, an artist is proud of his imagination."
"If we come from the water, I conclude that we come from different kinds of it. I will meet a person and in his eyes see an ocean, deep and never ending; then I will meet another person and feel as though I have stepped into a shallow puddle on the street, there is nothing in it. Or maybe some of us come from the water, and some of us come from somewhere else; then it's all a matter of finding those who are the same as us."
"Comparisons are like rigid fingers-eager to point at a subject but unwilling to grasp it."
"I think that's created a healthy environment. The comparisons to "ER" were maddening and there was this assumption that the two of us were looking at each other with rage and resentment, which was also not the case."
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