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"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
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"Canada has given us John Candy and Martin Short and Bill Shatner and Lord knows how many other wonderful performers."
"When I started out in Canada, I did a lot of voice-overs and commercials."
"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
"I was totally unknown in the television and film industry in Canada."
"From that moment on, there will be an irreversible process to separate Quebec from Canada."
"Individual scientists like myself - and many more conspicuous - pointed to the dangers of radioactive fallout over Canada if we were to launch nuclear weapons to intercept incoming bombers."
"Here in Canada, in the Western world, we are inside the walls. Outside the walls are the barbarians."
"Actually, in this instance we do have probably a better tracking system than was the instance in Canada. Because this is a dairy cow, they're all individually tagged."
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"The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them."
"A new sense of shared international responsibility is unmistakable in the voices of the United Nations and its agencies, and in the civil society of thousands of supra-national NGOs."
"What makes the Universal Declaration an epochal document is first of all its global impetus and secondly the breadth of its claims, a commitment to a new social contract, binding on all the Governments of the world."
"Science gives us a powerful vocabulary, and it is impossible to produce a vocabulary with which one can only say nice things."
"Though neglectful of their responsibility to protect science, scientists are increasingly aware of their responsibility to society."
"The respect for human rights, essential if we are to use technology wisely, is not something alien that must be grafted onto science. On the contrary, it is integral to science, as also to scholarship in general."
"Instead, in the absence of respect for human rights, science and its offspring technology have been used in this century as brutal instruments for oppression."
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