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"If everything is very important, then nothing is important."
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."
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"As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing."
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Personal Development
"Since philosophy now criticizes everything it comes across, a critique of philosophy would be nothing less than a just reprisal."
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"There is nothing so difficult to marry as a large nose."
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Personal Development
"Even if you have nothing to write, write and say so."
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Personal Development
"Nothing endures but personal qualities."
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Personal Development
"There is nothing more imprudent than excessive prudence."
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Personal Development
"Nothing is so unbelievable that oratory cannot make it acceptable."
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"Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable."
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"Nothing like a little judicious levity."
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"I would go to them and I would explain this is the price of going forward. We're going to move ahead in all these other areas. We're moving ahead in tax reform and GST, we are moving ahead on trade, but this will not be done at the cost of the environment."
Environment
"First, President Reagan was not enthusiastic. But I built up a relationship with him in other areas and then persuaded him that this was important to us and to me, and that we had to at least be in the process of looking at this seriously."
Leadership
"In politics, madame, you need two things: friends, but above all an enemy."
Friendship
"You accumulate political capital to spend it on noble causes for Canada. If you're afraid to spend your capital, you shouldn't be there."
Leadership
"You cannot name a Canadian prime minister who has done as many significant things as I did, because there are none."
Achievement
"We decided that the environment was an integral part of our policies and the political thrust of our government. We gave it the priority and we sustained it with the money required to make it happen."
Money
"The Conservatives over the years have done a great deal, from Sir John A, to Diefenbaker, and others."
Leadership
"I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based."
Vision
"If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing."
Nothing
"You can't be chasing 15 rabbits. Otherwise, the public mind cannot follow you."
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